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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reoccupy.

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Examples

  • If the prospect of several million German Jews showing up uninvited and unrefusable in Paris would have motivated France to mobilize against Hitler when he reoccupied the Rhineland, the world would have been better off.

    Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration 2010

  • His rearmed army had reoccupied the Rhineland in March 1936.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Several hundred protesters reoccupied Tahrir Square on July 8 to demand a faster pace of political reforms.

    Egyptian Troops Clear Cairo’s Tahrir Square 2011

  • If the prospect of several million German Jews showing up uninvited and unrefusable in Paris would have motivated France to mobilize against Hitler when he reoccupied the Rhineland, the world would have been better off.

    Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration 2010

  • His rearmed army had reoccupied the Rhineland in March 1936.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • For four days protesters reoccupied parts of Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo and closed it off to traffic.

    Egypt's ex-president detained for investigation 2011

  • The area will be able to be reoccupied four hours after treatment, and employees will be able to work normally the next day.

    What happened to USAID's bedbugs? Ed O 2010

  • As we know, the Treaty of Versailles, agreed to a year later, caused festering German resentment, but the Allies failed to enforce some of its key provisions, most notably when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland less than 20 years later.

    The Bitter End William Anthony Hay 2011

  • For four days protesters reoccupied parts of Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo and closed it off to traffic.

    Mubarak's sons detained in Egypt investigation 2011

  • I wonder how Texans would respond if yesterday the Israelis had reoccupied their state after treating it like an open-air prison for the last year.

    Silence Equals | ATTACKERMAN 2009

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