as in to resume
to begin again or return to after an interruption
after being shut down for three years, the power plant will restart operations this week
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Recent Examples of restart
Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain will restart in the lead.
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Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 Feb. 2025
South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP Sigmon would be the oldest of the 46 South Carolina inmates who have been executed since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
Snake Keylogger drops a file into the Windows Startup folder to launch whenever a PC restarts.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
But the Israeli government has yet to decide whether to advance negotiations to extend the truce, which will lapse in early March unless Hamas and Israel restart talks.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 Feb. 2025
South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP Sigmon would be the oldest of the 46 South Carolina inmates who have been executed since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
Snake Keylogger drops a file into the Windows Startup folder to launch whenever a PC restarts.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
But the Israeli government has yet to decide whether to advance negotiations to extend the truce, which will lapse in early March unless Hamas and Israel restart talks.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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The state of Idaho is also set to resume firing squad executions, but only in circumstances when lethal injection drugs cannot be found.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Still, the airport's operations manager told Canadian news channel CP 24 on Thursday morning that there was no firm timeline for resuming the normal flight schedule at Pearson.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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However, according to a resolution included in the agenda for the board’s Thursday meeting, the original resolution will no longer continue as planned.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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His music has continued to be sampled by a new generation of R&B and rap stars, appearing in tracks from Queen Latifah, Tupac, Biggie and Aaliyah.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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The sheriff's office's Cold Case Unit reopened the investigation in 2022.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2025
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But the exteriors are just one aspect of the stylish resort that reopened last summer.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Restart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/restart. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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