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OVER AGAIN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anew
Example:
they rehearsed the scene again
Synonyms:
again; once again; once more; over again
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Context examples:
“What think you now?” cried the west-countryman behind me, and in his excitement he could get no further save to repeat over and over again, “What think you now?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
ATTE—why, it is the same message over again.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Or if the venture capitalist didn’t send the funds promised, you may have to start looking all over again.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Studying the microscopic roundworm C. elegans led the researchers to find that defects in one protein cause animals to reorient themselves over and over again.
(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)
The lady’s, on the other hand, were most bitter, and when she raised her voice could be plainly heard. ‘You coward!’ she repeated over and over again. ‘What can be done now?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In trooped the whole family, and everyone was hugged and kissed all over again, and after several vain attempts, the three wanderers were set down to be looked at and exulted over.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Anew, afresh, or over again from the beginning.
(De novo, NCI Thesaurus)
Each day, pursuing him and crying defiance at him, the lesson of the previous night was erased, and that night would have to be learned over again, to be as immediately forgotten.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And he conned the grub of the cache and the grub of the Hudson Bay Company post over and over again.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Dorothy picked them up and had the Winkies carry them back to the castle, where they were stuffed with nice, clean straw; and behold! here was the Scarecrow, as good as ever, thanking them over and over again for saving him.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
