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replay

[ verb ree-pley; noun ree-pley ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

an act or instance of replaying.
a repetition of all or part of a broadcast or of the playing of a phonograph record, videocassette, etc.
instant replay.
a rematch.
Informal. a repetition, recurrence, or reenactment:
The recession could be a replay of the Great Depression.

replay

Also calledaction replay television a showing again of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens either in slow motion (a slow-motion replay ) or at normal speed
a rematch

Origin of replay¹

First recorded in 1880–85; re- + play

The agony of being so close to our goal but failing gnaws at our insides while we replay the events over and over in our heads.

Too much of it seems to have been a replay on a larger scale of an incident back in May 2013.

Video replay of the crash shows Chilton weaving his way through an exploding tide of debris.

You can go back to rewinding your TiVos to replay that scene over and over again now.

It makes sense that Democrats would want the coming election to be a replay of the last one.

Senator Crane, a doggedly determined man, had listened to the replay of Brent Taber's top-secret conference again and again.

It was a replay of the old, 11th century, religious fragmentation.

My replay was, alluding to our fight in the river, "How did N'yamyonjo's men fare?"

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