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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of recompose.

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Examples

  • Heinrich giggled and admitted that when his time comes he might avoid a casket, or at least a solidly sealed up one, and hopes to be "recomposed" - he doesn't like the word "decompose," preferring to think of himself as rejoining the world rather than falling out of it.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Gradually these elements would be recomposed into Britain's first native style, the Early English.

    Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches 2011

  • Also, now seeing another wave of social media, pictures being collected and recomposed.

    Chile Earthquake « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010

  • Although many of the early songs were originally composed with string quartet, they were mainly recomposed with piano.

    John Jeffreys obituary John Turner 2010

  • In the 70-odd paintings, collages and sculptures arrayed here, all made in the two-year period that inaugurated the second — or "synthetic" — phase of Cubism, the forms of guitars primarily, but also of bottles, glasses and tables, have been opened out, broken up and recomposed as planar constructions.

    The Quintessential Guitar Hero Eric Gibson 2011

  • The Sanctus, for example, is based on one written for Christmas 1724; the Osanna is adapted from a secular cantata movement of 1732; and the Agnus Dei is a heavily recomposed version of a cantata movement from 1725.

    A Monumental Composer in Context Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

  • Many of them have been recomposed with new directors who have much more financial market expertise.

    Why Boards Are Still So Out Of Touch Paul Strebel 2011

  • This part of the book includes parodies of nursery rhymes recomposed to match the style of various writers.

    The Sincerest Form of Ridicule 2010

  • There was just one problem: The largely new and recomposed board had not coalesced on a succession plan and had to embark on a CEO search that was resolved only when Brian Moynihan was elected in December.

    Planning For Your Next CEO 2010

  • There was just one problem: The largely new and recomposed board had not coalesced on a succession plan and had to embark on a CEO search that was resolved only when Brian Moynihan was elected in December.

    Planning For Your Next CEO Ana Dutra 2010

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