How to Use restate in a Sentence

restate

verb
  • She needs to restate her arguments.
  • Don’t hesitate to ask the person to restate the question or prompt.
    Avery Blank, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • And again, Cook was simply restating something he's said in the past.
    The Washington Post, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • So why did Congress feel the need to restate what Treasury already can do?
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Johnson restates his argument that the U.K. must be able to choose.
    Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Their tendency to restate themselves, though, shows up in large ways and small.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • Post updated to restate the method in the fourth-to-last paragraph for detecting BitB pages.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • And extremely important to restate, and to bear in mind.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 June 2022
  • The North is restating its long-time position, and better for the world to know the truth going into the summit than bank on false hopes.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • Why doesn’t your daughter want to restate something more kindly?
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.
    Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Our concerns about climate change, to restate the obvious, are not for the climate itself.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • Dear Meh: One way to cover yourself is to restate some benign facts and ask some benign questions.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2020
  • In their Facebook post, the Albers not only restated many of the claims in the lawsuit, but aired their grievances about how Howe handled videos that showed the shooting.
    Joe Robertson, kansascity, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Many students are taught to restate the question to help guide their writing, but now, with machines scoring their work, that can result in a score of zero.
    Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Among other challenges, MiMedx is in the process of restating its financial results back to 2012.
    Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Fortune does not restate the prior year’s figures for changes in accounting.
    财富中文网, 25 July 2023
  • To restate Biur, there is no greater punishment than the soul drowning in the abomination of sin from which one cannot escape.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 31 July 2017
  • The earnings were postponed as the company had to restate its results for the prior three years due to some accounting errors.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The new text restated the need to keep the university open to all speakers and political and cultural points of view.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • As the above shows, Democrats generally only got Mueller to restate findings from his report.
    Author: Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2019
  • The flap over the trading miscues forced the bank to restate a quarter’s earnings and pay more than $1 billion in settlements with U.S. and U.K. regulators.
    Jef Feeley, Bloomberg.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The report, meanwhile, restates many of the conclusions Bea made in April that shoddy design, construction work and maintenance caused the crater to form in the spillway.
    Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 20 July 2017
  • He restated points made in opening arguments Monday that Talley went to Kirst's home to kill himself in front of her, leading to a struggle over the gun and the shot that took the victim's life.
    Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
  • That’s worth restating: the chief lobbyist for American lawyers is fighting a bill that seeks to stop rampant law-breaking.
    Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 1 July 2019
  • When asked for comment, the district sent a brief statement restating the judge’s decision and directing reporters to the court’s filings.
    Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Officials restated the case for a tool that pools resources -- something akin to a common euro-area budget.
    Craig Stirling, Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2020
  • Wallace restated the question a few times before giving up.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Last week, in reporting its earnings for the first three months of the year, Wells noted the results were preliminary and might have to be restated to account for the settlement.
    Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The royal court issued a statement afterward, saying the king restated the need for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
    Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019

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