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Recent Examples of rerun
Thanks to cable reruns, DVD box sets, streaming and now social media clips, the show’s reputation has only grown over the last three decades.
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
Late Night with Seth Meyers has been in reruns this week.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Elsewhere on Tuesday: Opposite CBS drama reruns, ABC’s Will Trent Season 3 opener (with 5.9 million viewers) easily hit a series high in audience, as did the winter premiere of the freshman drama High Potential (5.7 mil).
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Jan. 2025
The sitcom, considered one of the most popular TV shows of all time, is still being discovered today and capturing the hearts of new viewers who catch reruns on TBS or stream it on Max.
—Gil MacIas, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
Late Night with Seth Meyers has been in reruns this week.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Elsewhere on Tuesday: Opposite CBS drama reruns, ABC’s Will Trent Season 3 opener (with 5.9 million viewers) easily hit a series high in audience, as did the winter premiere of the freshman drama High Potential (5.7 mil).
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Jan. 2025
The sitcom, considered one of the most popular TV shows of all time, is still being discovered today and capturing the hearts of new viewers who catch reruns on TBS or stream it on Max.
—Gil MacIas, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rerun
Noun
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For a decade since, that sentiment has played on repeat.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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This year the Chiefs are aiming for an unprecedented ‘three-peat’ and the game is a repeat of Super Bowl LVII in 2023 when the Chiefs beat the Eagles 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona.—
Eduardo Tansley,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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The movement to boycott Meta is only the latest iteration of an ongoing cultural shift.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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In December, Variety confirmed Lawrence was working on a new iteration of the series via 20th Television for ABC.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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The first three of those points came at the free throw line, after Duncan Robinson fouled Lillard on a three-point shot, a call upheld on replay.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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Kansas City’s defense was waiting and stuffed him short of a first down — or at least mucked up the play enough that a replay review couldn’t determine whether Allen had reached the line to gain.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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The door is covered in a Warhol-like repetition of Socrates faces; the blackboard is framed with more busts of Socrates.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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The fundamental elements of African American music were the sounds of enslaved Africans; cries, hollers, call and response, additive rhythms, bent notes, hand-clapping, stomps and constant repetition of rhythmic and melodic phrasing (from which riffs and vamps were derived).—
Ronald E. Scott,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Financial terms of YouTube TV’s renewal with Paramount weren’t disclosed.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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Rapture By Susan Minot See Now Then, by Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid’s novel introduces readers to Mr. and Mrs. Sweet and their two children, Heracles (like the son of Zeus and his human mistress) and Persephone (like the queen of the dead, a symbol of the cycles of renewal that happen below the earth).—
Haley Mlotek,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Rerun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rerun. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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