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Recent Examples of repeater
Deploying that communications infrastructure (like antennae or repeaters) requires boots on the ground.
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Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025
This is only the second time in the last 33 years that three of the final four teams are repeaters, with Stars-Oilers a do-over from last season and Florida attempting to make the final a third consecutive time.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Photo: Sue Tallon To keep the signal going after the first 50 km, a repeater was then used to convert light pulses into electronic signals, clean them up, amplify them, and then retransmit them with another laser down the next length of fiber.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
Plus, a partial outage affecting some network repeaters is causing more problems: the card reader only works intermittently, and that leads to endless lines of frustrated customers.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Harry Law, Time, 5 June 2025
This is only the second time in the last 33 years that three of the final four teams are repeaters, with Stars-Oilers a do-over from last season and Florida attempting to make the final a third consecutive time.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Photo: Sue Tallon To keep the signal going after the first 50 km, a repeater was then used to convert light pulses into electronic signals, clean them up, amplify them, and then retransmit them with another laser down the next length of fiber.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
Plus, a partial outage affecting some network repeaters is causing more problems: the card reader only works intermittently, and that leads to endless lines of frustrated customers.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repeater
Noun
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Elam has been researching the Pusser case for decades, and has provided information to the TBI, including a 2023 lead on a carbine that may have belonged to Pusser.—
Keith Sharon,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Hale’s firearms included an AR-15 pistol, a semi-automatic AR pistol, a semi-automatic carbine rifle and a semi-automatic pistol.—
John Miller,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Betty Ann Tomlinson, 50, was charged Thursday afternoon with arson, conspiracy to commit arson and assisting a criminal.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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The thriller follows a professional criminal who, after surviving an assassination attempt, embarks on a relentless quest to identify his would-be killer and protect his family.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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At the scene of the apparent assassination attempt, officials found the rifle, a black backpack and a bag containing ceramic tile, and a GoPro camera.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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Six days later, Blanchard was assaulted outside a party on Westwood Northern Boulevard and went inside to get a rifle, prosecutors said.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
11 July 2025
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The greedy culprits were primarily private nonprofits, ranging from large research universities like NYU and USC to small colleges which weren’t even in the master’s game at the dawn of Grad PLUS.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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There has been plenty of blame to go around as the Yankees suffer pitching injuries, offensive regressions and defensive missteps, but one culprit has stood out above the rest: Anthony Volpe.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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The 34-year-old man and his 25-year-old girlfriend, both Oakland residents, were charged with being felons in possession of firearms, possessing a machine gun, and possessing property that was stolen from the U.S. Coast Guard in Oakland, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 July 2025
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They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Many times, crooks can easily find a crypto ATM simply by searching online for bitcoin ATMs near you.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
10 July 2025
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The crooks used a crowbar to break the front glass door of the Playersclub NY clothing store around 4:37 a.m.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
Noun
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When the occupants of the boat refused to surrender, the crew fired warning shots with a shotgun and then fired pepper-ball rounds onto the skiff, the Coast Guard reported.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Mary Winkler, wife to the town’s Fourth Street Church of Christ minister Matthew Winkler, had shot her husband in the back with a shotgun in their bedroom, killing him.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
9 July 2025
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This graphic novel keeps the spirit of the Blues Brothers alive; mischievous recidivists, musical outlaws who above everything, care about the Blues.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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Yet this seemingly entirely unnecessary act of recidivist safeguarding was how Tristan da Cunha came to be populated.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
23 May 2025
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“Repeater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repeater. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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