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  • verb Present participle of reassume.

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Examples

  • And I'm getting together with old friends that I've missed and reassuming the life I had before I got the call to go be on "Lost."

    Talking 'Lost' with Michael Emerson -- Emmys, epilogue, finale and more 2010

  • As a result, the gas crisis has created a new chance for the beleaguered President Yushchenko to restore some luster to his faded image by reassuming the role of a unifier and statesman.

    The Gas War May Rehabilitate Ukraine's Yushchenko Adrian Karatnycky 2009

  • I think I'm always reassuming that I'm the only human who ever watched that show.

    Being Jewish EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • Here's a chance for the beleaguered president to restore some luster to his faded image by reassuming the role of a unifier and statesman.

    The Gas War May Rehabilitate Ukraine's Yushchenko Adrian Karatnycky 2009

  • Duchovny and Anderson speak openly about the pressures involved with reassuming the roles they vacated six years ago when the show ended.

    DVD Review: X-Files: I Want To Believe 2008

  • LAVANDERA: So again the latest here this morning, those crime scene investigators back at the Marine corporal's house where they're reassuming their search and there's still been no word as to the whereabouts of Marine Corporal Caesar Laurean as this nationwide manhunt continues for him -- T.J. HOLMES: All right, Ed Lavandera for us there in J.cksonville.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008 2008

  • Cheney's success at reassuming control over the foreign policy process came through exploitation of President Bush's mistrust of the intelligence community, which he has long seen as hostile to his interventionist policies.

    Philip Giraldi: The Return of Dick Cheney 2008

  • He was temporarily removed by Lincoln, only reassuming command after the debacle of Second Bull Run.

    Robert Mackey: Huzzah for Governor Palin, On to Richmond! General McClellan Has Arrived in Afghanistan! 2008

  • Or as John Mecklin put it, "[u] ntil we know the entire story of the conduct of the war on terror, a new story - with America reassuming a believable role as a guarantor of human rights - can't really begin."

    Truth, Justice, and the American Way 2008

  • In the fall of 2001, after reassuming the role of CEO after Jeff Skilling's abrupt resignation, Lay publicly proclaimed several times that Enron was in good shape.

    CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006 2006

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