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  • verb Present participle of reoccupy.

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Examples

  • If you will notice, the Hispanic people are slowly reclaiming the land that was stolen from them by physically reoccupying it.

    It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • The Israelis drove their tanks and armored personnel carriers into the West Bank, reoccupying the six largest towns and rounding up scores of young men.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • I would say, further, that reoccupying a major fort is the kind of thing that no local ruler worth his salt would be happy with someone else doing, so whether or not the person so doing was such a ruler, he or she was probably setting out to be one...

    Birdoswald Roman Fort: dating the post-Roman use of the site Carla 2010

  • The Israelis drove their tanks and armored personnel carriers into the West Bank, reoccupying the six largest towns and rounding up scores of young men.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Terror is an excuse, an excuse to continue occupying (or reoccupying) Middle East territories.

    State of the Nations II: War on terror 2009

  • Now, they're not specifying exactly how long, but obviously, what they want to avoid is, essentially, reoccupying Gaza, something Israel did from June 1967 until September 2005.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009 2009

  • They warned if the local administration failed to hand over them their rights they would be compelled to approach some 21 militants for reoccupying their land.

    Youth tournament ended 2009

  • And right now, they are setting the goal to be not one of reoccupying Gaza, not one of getting Hamas out of there, but of stopping and neutralizing the rocket fire.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009 2009

  • Unfortunately Obama or any other US official has said nothing about reoccupying Nuristan and Luger fromwhere US troops left in such a hurry that they left their weapons to be used by Taliban.

    Obama's Troops surge, The Greater Game Part III 2009

  • Given the difficult choices facing it, it is unlikely Israel will succeed in its goal of completely destroying Hamas 'infrastructure and regime without deploying more troops into Gaza City itself and without reoccupying large swaths of the Gaza Strip A lengthy presence in Gaza will surely result in Israel incurring more casualties; and incurring more international wrath as the civilian toll throughout the Gaza Strip mounts.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Gaza: Fight at the End of the Tunnel? 2009

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