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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of readopt.

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Examples

  • But if a new Bundesbank were setting monetary policy because Germany had dropped out of the single currency and readopted the deutsche mark, rates would almost certainly have to be even lower than the ECB has them.

    Germany's Interest Rates Have Become a Special Case Alen Mattich 2011

  • But if a new Bundesbank were setting monetary policy because Germany had dropped out of the single currency and readopted the deutsche mark, rates would almost certainly have to be even lower than the ECB has them.

    Germany's Interest Rates Have Become a Special Case Alen Mattich 2011

  • Below us the confusion of spindly pines gave way to a post-cropping tangle of wet, rank grasses and old roots – an area being slowly readopted by oak and other saplings.

    Country diary: Nant yr Arian, Aberystwyth 2011

  • Dixons, which was formerly known as DSG but has readopted the identity of its former high street brand, will unveil Knowhow this week as a revamped and upgraded service to replace its four-year-old "TechGuys" service.

    Dixons sets up new technical support service Knowhow Andrew Clark 2010

  • When six years later she was readopted by her own mother, she was regularly abused as a punishment for… well, being a reminder of her mother's shame.

    Cultural diversity is a fact. Let's celebrate it together | The Big Issue 2010

  • As Senator J. William Fulbright wrote in 1971, The military public relations campaign is directed at all of the American people ( "targets," they are called in the manuals, a nice military word adopted by Madison Avenue and readopted by military PR people in its new sense).

    Lincoln Group Propagandists Paid to Tell Afghans Their Bombs are Worse than Ours 2008

  • But Clinton's proposal wasn't much different from the position Bush took in early July and warily readopted last week.

    Ethnic Cleansing 2008

  • Bill West of West in New England descends from a son of James Thomas Donham who readopted the "Dunham" spelling.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • I believe Crawley Conservatives have readopted their 2005 candidate who achieved a terrific swing - Crawley was barely on the radar before the last election and now it has a majority in double-figures.

    On Trigger Ballots: Grimmer Up North Now Likes Them 2007

  • I'm sure most people who adopt animals don't know that in some contracts you're supposed to if you want to give it away, or have it readopted, that you're supposed to go back through.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2007 2007

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