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  • verb analyze again
  • verb linguistics Analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding. For example, hamburger, which is originally Hamburg + -er, was reanalyzed as ham + -burger, which produced words like cheeseburger.

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Examples

  • An interdisciplinary collaboration of scientists, led by Dr. Bromwich, will "reanalyze" Arctic data from the past decade at three-hour intervals, 15-kilometer distances and 70 layers from the surface of the Earth to the top of the atmosphere.

    YubaNet.com 2008

  • Cook up a few questionable studies that reanalyze the data, divert attention to other possible culprits, or call for new research.

    Wonkbook: Foreclosure law vetoed; individual mandate ruled constitutional; IMF takes on China Ezra Klein 2010

  • And this all has to be balanced against the fact that there are very few data sets anyone would want to reanalyze.

    Making data public GamesWithWords 2010

  • And this all has to be balanced against the fact that there are very few data sets anyone would want to reanalyze.

    Archive 2010-08-01 GamesWithWords 2010

  • And it told Glaxo to reanalyze the company-funded Record study.

    Regulators Scuttle Drug for Diabetes 2010

  • When you consider that the majority of papers are never even cited, it seems unlikely that there's much desire to reanalyze the vast bulk of them.

    Sorry, Sharing My Data is Illegal GamesWithWords 2010

  • Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd. said Thursday that some key shareholders sold about US$92. 5 million shares in a private placement, sending its stock price lower and prompting Thai Airways International PCL to reanalyze a planned partnership.

    Tiger Airways Holders Pare Stakes 2010

  • And while there is a very slight chance you might want to reanalyze the data some day, it's also a truism that reanalyzing data to answer questions the study was not designed to answer is rarely particularly productive.

    Sorry, Sharing My Data is Illegal GamesWithWords 2010

  • Instead, it suggested the agency "reanalyze its procedures" to track delinquent reports.

    MMS investigations of oil-rig accidents have history of inconsistency 2010

  • The other is to allow people to reanalyze the data for new purposes.

    Sorry, Sharing My Data is Illegal GamesWithWords 2010

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