as in repeats
the act of saying or doing over again
his second marriage turned out to be a reprise of the first one: equally disastrous, simply shorter
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as in summarizes
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
the prosecutor's closing statement effectively reprised the case against the defendant
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as in replicates
to make or do again
let us not reprise the stupid mistakes we made last time
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Recent Examples of reprises
Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2024
Keaton reprises his role as the title character in the sequel, a bio-exorcist who tried to scare the Deetz family out of their house in Winter River, Connecticut, in the original film.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Colin Farrell, with whom Feliz spends the majority of his screentime, reprises his role as Oswald Cobb, a middle management mobster with ambitions for grandeur.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 6 Oct. 2024
Keaton reprises his role as the title character in the sequel, a bio-exorcist who tried to scare the Deetz family out of their house in Winter River, Connecticut, in the original film.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Reprises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reprises. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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