as in to acquiesce
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Recent Examples of reassume
America will have a hard time reassuming its role as a world leader . . .
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Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Kyle Larson stays out during this pit cycle under caution and reassumes the race lead.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
The president may invoke Section 3 for a specific period of time, such as for a scheduled medical treatment, before reassuming the office.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
Her father will reassume the role as chairman of the company, and another executive, Michael Lee, will assume the role as president of Foremost, according to the company statement.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
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Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Kyle Larson stays out during this pit cycle under caution and reassumes the race lead.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
The president may invoke Section 3 for a specific period of time, such as for a scheduled medical treatment, before reassuming the office.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
Her father will reassume the role as chairman of the company, and another executive, Michael Lee, will assume the role as president of Foremost, according to the company statement.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reassume
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The coalition government acquiesced to this demand, and a public inquiry was set up later in 2022.Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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On various occasions, Walz has also acquiesced to the wishes of Mayo, even when those were at odds with the goals of other allies.Max Nesterak, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
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What appears to be lacking in the U.S.’s inability to have Israel accede to its pleas to de-escalate is another geopolitical concept that has, it is argued, worked elsewhere: strategic ambiguity.Charles Walldorf, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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But if Moscow could not enforce a sphere, then on what grounds should the West have acceded?Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
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When Nguyen assented, the man pledged to vote for him, no questions asked.Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend (2018) and Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry (2018) asked whether a woman can assent to her subjugation.Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2024
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Understanding that Congress would never have consented to spend that much public money in this manner, the White House has sought at every point to ensure that its conduct was excluded from the customary constitutional processes.The Editors, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
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This technology poses unprecedented challenges to consent, privacy and image rights.Virginie Berger, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Capitol, however, was morally opposed to leaving any spare change rattling in the kids’ pockets—and the kids agreed.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2024
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Kristin Chenoweth, who portrayed the good witch in Wicked on Broadway opposite Idina Menzel’s Elphaba, agreed.Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2024
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Fittingly, one of the most terrifying scenes has little to do with the supernatural, but instead concerns itself with the grotesque ignorance that upholds the conditions that allow for the girls suffering.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Earlier this month, Paxton filed a motion asking District Judge Jan Soifer to reconsider her previous ruling upholding the depositions, which Soifer again denied.Hogan Gore, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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On this day in 1777: The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Second Continental Congress, though the document was not ratified by the states until March 1, 1781.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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On one project for a manufacturing company, what initially appeared as a simple reluctance to adopt new interface design solutions turned out to be a thoughtful concern about maintaining their exceptional standards in safety.Goran Paun, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Gutierrez, advocating for a comprehensive immigration reform program intent on expanding migrant access to jobs in America, argued that Allred's move to support a GOP stance on the border runs contrary to bipartisanship.Hogan Gore, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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But crucially, Carville advocated for some form of mini-primary to determine who should be the Democratic Party nominee to replace Biden.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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