reenter
verbEtymology From re- + enter.
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Ambitransitive To enter again; return into.
- The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
- It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025:
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- At least five people appeared briefly on the roof of the building, and squatters could be seen tossing firecrackers and building materials out of a window and shouting obscenities as the police moved into the area. But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one.1995 July 5, Norimitsu Onishi, “Tenement Is Briefly Seized In East Village”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2010:
- Could this policy have helped to cut the crime rate significantly, especially in areas like New York with disproportionately large concentrations of undocumented and recent immigrants, some of whom were deeply involved in illegal activities? The crackdown could have made a difference if the deportables were in fact expelled, if alien ex-cons who wanted to reenter New York and wreak more havoc could not get back in the country, and if this get-tough policy had the intended effect of deterring unlawful impulses among recent immigrants who were not yet naturalized citizens2006, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s, page 241:
- As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To enter again; retype, reinput.
- We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.
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