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- noun A second or subsequent
contraction
Etymologies
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If the universe begins to recontract, subsequent events in the timeline may not occur as the [[Big Crunch]], the recontraction of the universe
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Big Crunch, the recontraction of the universe into a hot, dense state similar to that after the Big Bang, will supervene.
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If the universe begins to recontract, subsequent events in the timeline may not occur as the [[Big Crunch]], the recontraction of the universe
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Big Crunch, the recontraction of the universe into a hot, dense state similar to that after the Big Bang, will supervene.
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a recontraction, and even in the majority of cases, where daily drawing back the skin might have been practicable, the cries and struggles of the child are a positive prohibition to these instructions being carried out; it is not once in ten times that it can be carried out.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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