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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recycle.

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Examples

  • Along with the receptor, the apo-transferrin recycles to the cell surface.

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography 2005

  • Not just the murder's and rapists that the broken justice system "recycles" into our community well before their mandatory jail-time has been served, but animals that just don't have reasoning skills.

    The Gun Trail: Riding along with Houston's ATF 2010

  • It's the gaseous oxygen vent hood, which is lifting up, and that essentially takes the oxygen which is bleeding off out of those tanks, it is rather cold, and steams off and kind of recycles it.

    CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2001 2001

  • So it kind of recycles into nuclear studies, nuclear science.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • She also "recycles" shards of stained glass from larger projects into mosaics, primarily plates, which she sells from her studio and through Gallery

    Local News from The Dispatch | Lexington, NC 2010

  • We developed a microprocessor-controlled artificial foot that captures some of the energy that is normally dissipated by the leg and "recycles" it as positive ankle work.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2010

  • Or worse yet, some gang goon enterprise that "recycles" their enemies (or just random strangers) for cash?

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • When you destroy a can it 'recycles' into a floating orb of recovery energy which you can pick up with the reticle.

    GayGamer.net 2009

  • When you destroy a can it 'recycles' into a floating orb of recovery energy which you can pick up with the reticle.

    GayGamer.net 2009

  • If I do get to the point when I no longer wish to personally manage my Kiva loan portfolio, I plan to donate those funds to an organization that automatically "recycles" microloans.

    NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit 2009

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