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ONCE AGAIN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anew

Example:

they rehearsed the scene again

Synonyms:

again; once again; once more; over again

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

Stage III patients have disease on both sides of the diaphragm and stage IV patients once again have disseminated disease.

(Ann Arbor Lymphoma Staging System, NCI Thesaurus)

"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

I will trouble you once again.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once the fatty acid-carnitine is inside the matrix, CPTII exchanges CoA for carnitine to produce fatty acid-CoA once again, ready to enter fatty acid oxidation in the matrix to produce energy.

(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

With them went Alleyne, still bound to his saddle, still dripping with blood, and swooning and recovering, and swooning once again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During this period, the reef started migrating landward; a strategy which would once again prove to be essential to its survival.

(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)

The ring-grazing orbits will continue until April 22, when the last close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan will once again reshape Cassini's flight path.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

These results show once again the importance of cognitive neuroscience also in the understanding of extremely topical clinical fields such as dietary disorders.

(Our Weight Tells How We Assess Food, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Once again he took to wandering in the woods, but the wild brother came no more; and though he listened through long vigils, the mournful howl was never raised.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both stopped to gaze on it.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)