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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of refight.

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  • WASHINGTON—On the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, top U.S. regulators on Thursday stressed the need to press forward with new rules to avert future crises as lawmakers refought the debate over the need for the law.

    Discord, Funding Squabbles Mark Dodd-Frank Hearing Jessica Holzer 2011

  • Like we said before, much depends on what happens in redistricting, but this is one race that Democrats might honestly want to see refought under different circumstances than those that made Scott "Half Off" Tipton competitive in 2010.

    John Salazar Drops More 2012 Rematch Hints 2010

  • On Saturday February 28, 2009 we refought the historical battle of Leuthen December 5, 1757 at Monsieur Chevert's spacious wargame room in Brown Deer, Wisconsin.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • On Saturday February 28, 2009 we refought the historical battle of Leuthen December 5, 1757 at Monsieur Chevert's spacious wargame room in Brown Deer, Wisconsin.

    Battle of Leuthen Report Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • New York The good war is now being refought in America's multiplexes for the umpteen-zillionth time — only this time the commanding general is Quentin Tarantino, a filmmaker whose interest in goodness, judging by his previous films, would seem to be rudimentary at best.

    The War That Never Ends 2009

  • My own uncle refought his battles in the Pacific almost every night for the rest of his life.

    The Weight of Visions 2009

  • It will not go away unless treated seriously & if that means this woman (who being a Lib Dem is clearly a nice person) has to go to jail then she should & any election affectd be refought.

    The Law on Postal Votes Must be Rewritten 2006

  • I remember an anectode on 'EvE' with Lady Pettygree just escaping fom a town under Hesse-Seewalder attack... was it that event refought, or is the dear Lady specially fifted to be in dangerous places?

    Battle of Muhlenberg - January 19, 1758 Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • Both movies vacuumed up Oscar nominations — The Deer Hunter nine, Coming Home eight — setting the stage for the war to be refought at, of all places, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, in Los Angeles.

    The Vietnam Oscars Peter Biskind 2008

  • Some Frenchmen refought the Revolution for 200 years of their politics, and some Americans refought the Civil War for a century -- neither with good results.

    No Apologies 2008

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