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  • verb Present participle of repass.

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Examples

  • "The number is encouraging considering that bank lending is still anemic and that Congress has done little to help manufacturing, such as repassing the bonus depreciation tax bill or R&D credits.

    Reliable Plant Homepage 2010

  • “The flight was precipitated and confused, many were killed and scalped by the Indians in repassing the Monongahela,” a survivor remembered.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “The flight was precipitated and confused, many were killed and scalped by the Indians in repassing the Monongahela,” a survivor remembered.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “The flight was precipitated and confused, many were killed and scalped by the Indians in repassing the Monongahela,” a survivor remembered.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “The flight was precipitated and confused, many were killed and scalped by the Indians in repassing the Monongahela,” a survivor remembered.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • One representative suggested simply repassing the 1894 tax bill and daring the Supreme Court to overturn it a second time.

    A Short History of the Income Tax John Steele Gordon 2011

  • Then the overloaded vehicles, their meter flags down, began to set off in convoys of twenty-five to fifty toward the battlefield—“this forerunner of the future motorized column,” as one historian later wrote, driving as only Parisian taxicab drivers can, speeding and passing and repassing each other, their headlamps darting points of light along the dark roads.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Then the overloaded vehicles, their meter flags down, began to set off in convoys of twenty-five to fifty toward the battlefield—“this forerunner of the future motorized column,” as one historian later wrote, driving as only Parisian taxicab drivers can, speeding and passing and repassing each other, their headlamps darting points of light along the dark roads.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Roland could observe the matrons, as their thin forms darkened the casement in passing or repassing before it, dart a glance into the apartment, to see how matters were going on there.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Past quays and terraces, where women, gracefully veiled, were passing and repassing, and where idlers were reclining in the sunshine, on flag-stones and on flights of steps.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

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