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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
repurpose .
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Examples
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Using foundations cast in repurposed tires, each hut is raised above ground level preventing issues that could arise due to moisture and decay.
Butterfly Bamboo Homes Are Hope for Thai Orphans | Inhabitat 2009
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Buying a Shelves for Life system allows a person to rest in peace knowing that their coffin was repurposed from a piece of furniture that they already owned, meaning that no extra trees had to be cut down and no extra energy had to be expended (aside from the human energy it takes to assemble the coffin).
COFFIN SHELVES: Furniture for Life (and Death) | Inhabitat 2009
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The rest of the pages are repurposed from a variety of books and maps.
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Not to mention episode 51, where Warren and Alton roast long pig in a furnace repurposed from a North Korean nuclear device.)
cognitive dissonance theninth 2008
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Just call the repurposed OMAC Indigo and get it over with …
Batman and The Outsiders #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Both netlets currently air 2 hours of programming each week night (Monday-Friday); UPN is dark on weekends, and TheWB has the 5 hour "Kids WB" block on Saturdays, as well as three hours of "easy view" (aka repurposed programming, aka reruns) followed by two hours of originals on Sunday.
WB/UPN/The CW Rogers 2006
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Name of mashup (usually a combination of the original song titles repurposed to create a new mashed up title)
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Name of mashup (usually a combination of the original song titles repurposed to create a new mashed up title)
TheContentWrangler.com scottabel 2010
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She was done up, hair to toes, in shades of gold and so exquisitely strung together and ... maybe "repurposed" is the word I'm searching for - she looked like she might at any moment simply crack apart.
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And, yes, I "repurposed" one of the chapters from it for this week's science column on what it's like to work in a Level 4 lab.
One thing ends, other things begin ewillett 2007
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