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rerun

[ verb ree-ruhn; noun ree-ruhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, re·ran, re·run, re·running.

the act of rerunning.
a showing of a motion picture or television program after its initial run, usually some months or years later.
the motion picture or television program being shown again.
Informal. a person or thing that is merely a restatement or imitation of something familiar; rehash:
The plot is just a rerun of every other spy story.

rerun

Origin of rerun¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; re- + run

The specter of a potential Tea Party-fueled, Todd Akin rerun in the Georgia Senate race is nearly dead.

They did hundreds of episodes of that show, but that one seems to rerun the most.

This will not and cannot be a rerun of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The obvious aim is to blame Obama and the Democrats and rerun the 2010 elections in 2014.

Get those nachos ready and settle in for a rerun of The Daily Beast-certified best Super Bowl commercials.

I didn't see the actual—I didn't see the—but they rerun it that Sunday.

Had you seen the newspaper picture of the lady, Marina Oswald, prior to the time you saw the television rerun on Sunday afternoon?

Even the inner workings of the critical parts have been run and rerun.

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