repass

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Recent Examples of repass The Senate, which passed congressional and legislative district plans a week ago along party lines, met relatively briefly to repass the congressional plan after it was amended by Democrats in an attempt to secure some Republican support. oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
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Verb
  • On Capitol Hill, details are still under wraps as Republican lawmakers this year try to pass a major tax and spending bill that is seen as the primary vehicle for Trump's second-term agenda.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Photo: Ash James As an expansive, 2,000-acre estate that’s been passed down through the same family for generations, São Lourenço do Barrocal offers perhaps the most authentic introduction to the region.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Florida Sheriff's Association announced in February that all county jails had signed agreements in compliance with a state law enacted in 2022.
    Julia Ingram, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Republicans are hoping to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, which caps how much money the Treasury Department can owe to pay the country’s bills, by up to $5 trillion this year as part of a larger package to extend expiring tax cuts enacted through Trump’s signature 2017 tax law.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There’s debate, however, over whether criticism of Zionism, the promotion of a Jewish state, constitutes antisemitism.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In other words, for an act to constitute a war crime, there must be intent to commit the violation—an element entirely absent in this case.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • His White House permitted the attorney general to say that the man’s wife and child are better off without Garcia.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2025
  • If time permits, disconnect utilities and appliances.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Church’s task is no longer these days that of the lawmaker, laying down is right and good.
    Austen Ivereigh, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • In February, imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan called on his supporters to lay down their arms.
    Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are partially reusable, holding the promise that SpaceX's rockets would bring about a sharp reduction in the cost of launch.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Coyle describes other data challenges brought about by dramatic shifts in the American economy over the past 80 years.
    Brian Deese, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • What the episode discusses, broadly, around AI, is what actors are going through right now, and if this could actually happen to an actor that tried to reenact a role.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The accompanying post reenacted his efforts to get the audience excited about the special performance.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • During a January hearing on DEI initiatives, Toews told lawmakers that he was drawn to legislating on the issue in part because of a story his daughter, a university student in Idaho, told him about a classmate.
    Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2025
  • That the Founders placed the power to tax, tariff, and legislate in the hands of the legislature, instead of the executive, was not an accident.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Repass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repass. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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