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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of resituate.

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Examples

  • O'Quinn resituates patriotism within the twin projects of nation-making and imperial adventure, though in a way that transforms the melancholic triumphalist into an even more phantasmic agent of conflicting desires.

    Introduction 2006

  • But in Rupert Goold's stylish production of Macbeth, originally mounted for the Chichester Theatre in England and then moved with great success to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to Broadway, even this brief pause is too long: Goold cuts the last four lines and resituates the arrival of Duncan and Banquo to the castle's interior — what looks like a basement kitchen — where they come upon the staff preparing the evening's banquet.

    In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008

  • Providing this sort of genealogy for American whiteness crucially resituates our understanding of and possible approaches to it in the present.

    Critical Presentism 2002

  • In a meticulously detailed work of historical reconstruction, Guelzo resituates the debates within their political context, which is to say especially their party context.

    Claremont.org 2009

  • 9. Thou shalt not write a sentence like "the interdiscursive context of the historical moment resituates the metalanguage at a hypertextual level," lest there be great wailing and gnashing of teeth.

    Commandments 2003

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