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  • noun Plural form of repackaging.

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Examples

  • And many new medicines brought to the market are not β€œnew,” but semi-creative repackagings of existing medications – a molecule or too, and generally have no proven superiority over predecessors.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Reimportation Farce 2009

  • Oh, are these just repackagings of the earlier releases, then?

    Disney Releases New Miyazaki/Ghibli Special Edition DVDs » DVDs Worth Watching 2010

  • As housing values fell, more and more loans went "underwater", which as they accumulated -- and exacerbated by extreme leverage, through collateralized debt obligations and other repackagings of mortgages in secondary trading -- eventually tipped many of the banks (and hedge funds) into insolvency.

    Richard Stuebi: Revolution Now 2009

  • In The Fall's nearly thirty year recording career, they've released something very close to 50 albums, not counting countless compilations and repackagings, representing something very close to 30 different lineups.

    Archive 2007-03-04 2007

  • In The Fall's nearly thirty year recording career, they've released something very close to 50 albums, not counting countless compilations and repackagings, representing something very close to 30 different lineups.

    The Fall of the 49th CandleUH 2007

  • We're talking more than 100 albums, plus variants, repackagings, and special releases.

    The Hardest Working Man in Show Business 2006

  • We're talking more than 100 albums, plus variants, repackagings, and special releases.

    Archive 2006-12-24 2006

  • Fear and anger aren't in evidence here so much as a successful showman's desire to take a proven hit and package it with more polish for an already appreciative public; the new Producers is to the old one what the new versions of The Fly or Batman were to their film or television originals: fancier repackagings of a product that has otherwise changed very little, even if times have.

    Double Take Mendelsohn, Daniel 2001

  • A similar type of investment would be so-called re-remic mortgage-bond repackagings.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Those who can recall the many past repackagings of TS1

    Home Theater Forum Brian Borst 2010

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