reimpose

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Recent Examples of reimpose In late 2023, the Biden administration drastically scaled back sanctions, only to reimpose them a year later after Venezuela backtracked on its obligations. Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Europe moves to reimpose Iran sanctions Germany, France, and the UK moved to reimpose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Any effort to reimpose sanctions on Iran could face a veto from China or Russia. Laura Kelly, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025 France, Germany and the United Kingdom have begun the process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Jennifer Hansler, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reimpose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reimpose
Verb
  • Their focus on grooming and abuse of students comes in reaction to recent reporting by The Capital Times on about 200 cases of such incidents since 2018, including some cases of teachers who were able to later reapply for a license.
    Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Department of Education advises those borrowers to reapply.
    Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The djembe is a speaking drum, used historically in African villages to relay messages and information across the environment, and it’s used to lead dances, telling dancers when to change a step, start, and end.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Federal investigators have alleged Iza began communicating with Chapell’s girlfriend and relayed to Saavedra that the party planner was a drug dealer.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Vipers and elapids strike more elegantly before their victims are even aware of their presence, while colubrid bites inflict the maximum amount of damage.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Nightfall at Old Tucson For 2025, Nightfall at Old Tucson is going to the circus with Dabney the Clown and his band of evil brethren who will stop at nothing to inflict as much fear as possible.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, the gravity of our district’s challenges and the content of the Denver Post editorial from September 28, 2025, compel us to speak out.
    Elaine Gantz Berman, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Pro-housing groups saw CEQA as a tool development opponents were using to delay or kill projects and that construction unions were misusing to compel developers to employ their members.
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Follow what feels fun and freeing, not forced.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In Wisconsin, the legal bar to force someone into mental health treatment is high.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On Wednesday the storm is forecast to cross the southeastern Bahamas, where dangerous storm surges can also wreak devastation.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • To better understand how these storms can wreak so much havoc, our research team created simulations to show how storms interact with Earth’s natural magnetic shield and trigger the dangerous geomagnetic activity that can shut down electric grids.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Judge Steven Denny imposed the 60-year sentence that same day.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • He was forced to accept it, because it was imposed on him.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During that March 20 game, according to the feds, Porter was coerced into rigging games by others who threatened him due to his pre-existing gambling debts.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The retail giant agreed to the settlement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit filed by the FTC in 2023, in which federal officials alleged that Amazon coerced millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime subscriptions and then made those agreements extremely difficult to cancel.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Reimpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reimpose. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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