How to Use reprocess in a Sentence

reprocess

verb
  • The beer has to be reprocessed to make ethanol, so don’t try to fuel your six-cylinder with a six-pack.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2005
  • Utah claimed this cost the state a House seat and asked courts to order the bureau to reprocess the Census data.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Western Dubuque then reprocessed the biodiesel and did the paperwork for a second set of 36 million RINs.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But the law doesn’t bar a country from using the program to enrich and reprocess uranium to make a bomb.
    Alex Ward, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Aetna told us it will reprocess Neill's claim and reimburse her for any out-of-pocket costs.
    CBS News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Most customers who have had issues have responded to us and cleared the matter with their banks, and their orders have been reprocessed.
    Harold Brubaker, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Then comes biomass and the reprocessing industry at 2 GT, which is colored green and more certain.
    Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The protection should be removed and reprocessed if difficult to see through.
    Alyssa Stoney, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The site went on to become a centre for reprocessing nuclear fuel.
    The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • One plucks out juice cartons and plastic bottles that can be reprocessed, while the other searches for contaminants in the stream of paper products headed to a fiber mill.
    Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Greaves and her team have declined to comment on the new analyses of the ALMA observations until the observatory has had a chance to reprocess the data.
    Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • First, the team went back and reprocessed the observations from earlier this century.
    Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2016
  • The company then reprocesses these metals so they can be reused to make cathodes for new lithium-ion batteries.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Those forms are set to be reprocessed, the agency said, but a looming May 1 decision deadline for many colleges means that some financial aid offers might not reach students in time.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Brousse cautioned, however, that there is often a limit on the number of appeals - sometimes only two to three - so do not waste an appeal when a simple phone call may get the claim reprocessed.
    Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
  • According to Steinhauser, the policy in France is to let spent fuel sit for four years before trying to reprocess it; in Russia, the policy is three years.
    Wired, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Experts warn Iran has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
    Fox News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Japan plans to start up its Rokkasho reprocessing plant next year, but critics say that would only add to the stockpile problem and nuclear security concerns.
    Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • But this year, the Education Department has to reprocess more than half a million applications, and students have been waiting for two, three months — and counting.
    Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • Nielsen reprocessed the entire day for 44 local markets and four local Hispanic markets.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • While many plastic bags are recyclable and large retailers in some areas are required to accept them for reprocessing, many wind up tangled in trees and littering streets.
    Isabelle Philippe, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2020
  • That’s when Murray isn’t within growling distance of his family box, where his entourage has long been tasked with the chore of reprocessing all of the player’s ire into unrestrained assurance.
    Harvey Araton, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2016
  • But most Californians probably will be too busy or distracted to reprocess their own green waste.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The reactor’s redesign is a key component of the deal that addressed concerns that Iran could reprocess spent fuel from the facility into nuclear weapons.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
  • But this year, when the team reprocessed the ALMA data using a slightly different method, the irregularities resolved into a dust ring.
    Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 12 July 2019
  • That gas cooled and formed dust, which reprocessed visible light from the star into the infrared, slowly increasing in intensity until the primary outburst.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
  • Labour is promising three gigafactories, plus four metal reprocessing plants that would also serve the electric-car industry.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
  • But lawmakers in both parties have expressed alarm about the deal, in part because the Saudis have so far refused to agree to standard restrictions that would bar them from enriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel.
    Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 19 June 2019
  • The 1994 accord blocked the North from reprocessing plutonium from its reactor at Yongbyon.
    Mark Landler and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The court order directs the IRS to automatically reprocess stimulus claims by Oct. 24.
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020

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