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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reprise.

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  • Down there, the Democratic Party was referred to as the "Democrat" Party (a locution reprised by George W. Bush), and Dallas was, reported Manchester, "one American metropolis in which incitement to violence had become respectable."

    The Valley Advocate: News 2009

  • Steve Martin reprised Marlan Brando's role, and Michael Caine had the David Niven role.

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Remake Gets Pink; Rachel McAdams in Sherlock; Kumar Directors Do Us Part | /Film 2008

  • Billy Vera, wiping off all that '80s soft-pop glop in the same bold, brassy way that he snagged the swaggering "Heartache Tonight" from It felt like watching a hyper-romantic ending to a perfect little dramedy - and that trio of songs (the first of eight he reprised from the Greek Theatre.

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News By BEN WENER 2010

  • Bitter fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula reprised the deadlock on the Western Front as British, Australian and New Zealand troops sought to break well-defended Turkish lines.

    War and Its Discontents William Anthony Hay 2011

  • Unfortunately, the songs by Roger Anderson and Lee Goldsmith just don't deliver, whether it's the tepid love ballad "Maybe Today" (reprised again and again), the cynical "Cock and Bull" or the comic "A Handful O 'Hops" (which is actually not bad, but comes far too late in the story, when suspense should be the focus, not comic relief).

    Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup Michael Giltz 2010

  • The latest round of sparring largely reprised arguments made in both the lead-up to the law's adoption last March and the floor debate preceding the House's nearly party-line vote to repeal it last week.

    House Republicans sharpen attack on health-care reform in two Hill hearings N.C. Aizenman 2011

  • The latest round of sparring largely reprised arguments made in both the lead-up to the law's adoption last March and the floor debate preceding the House's nearly party-line vote to repeal it last week.

    House Republicans sharpen attack on health-care reform in two Hill hearings N.C. Aizenman 2011

  • Bitter fighting on the Gallipoli peninsula reprised the deadlock on the Western Front as British, Australian and New Zealand troops sought to break well-defended Turkish lines.

    World War I and Its Discontentsreading the great war 2011

  • She frequently referred to Reagan on the campaign trail, and in her debate with Vice President Joe Biden reprised Reagan's famous rejoinder from his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, "There you go again."

    Palin: America out of step with Reagan's values 2011

  • Unfortunately, the songs by Roger Anderson and Lee Goldsmith just don't deliver, whether it's the tepid love ballad "Maybe Today" (reprised again and again), the cynical "Cock and Bull" or the comic "A Handful O 'Hops" (which is actually not bad, but comes far too late in the story, when suspense should be the focus, not comic relief).

    Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup Michael Giltz 2010

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