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  1. transitive verb To look over, study, or examine again.
  2. transitive verb To consider retrospectively; look back on.
  3. transitive verb To examine with an eye to criticism or correction: reviewed the research findings.

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  • He often said afterward that his sole preparation for these lectures consisted in shutting himself up for hours and marshaling his vocabulary, passing in review, that is, all the English words he could recall. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • This review is an attempt to correlate the structures with biochemical and genetic data to identify the gaps and limits in our current knowledge of the mechanisms involved in translation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Ok, the fifth one shouldn't be a surprise either considering who this review is about: Derrick Mason. —  FakeTeams
  • City councilor Elena Velasquez said she asked city attorney Barbara Patterson to research the police department's policy regarding suspected undocumented immigrants, so a review is already under way. —  El Paso Days in Austin
  • A department spokesman denied the review was a response to public criticism of the school's handling of bullying at the school, published in The Northern Star last month. —  northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
 

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analysis ·  discussion ·  report ·  survey ·  publication ·  evaluation ·  research ·  collection ·  program ·  summary ·  interview ·  statement

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review:   reviews ·  reviewing ·  reviewed
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  1. Probably from Middle English, inspection of military forces, from Old French revue, review, from feminine past participle of reveeir, to see again, from Latin revidēre : re-, re- + vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French revue, reveue, a reviewing or review, French revue, a review, from revu, past participle of revoir, from Latinrevidere, see again, go to see again, from re-, again, + videre, see: see view, and cf. revise. Cf. Spanish Portuguese revista = Italian rivista, review, of similar formation: see vista.
  2. from re- + view; or from review, n.
 

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