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- uncountableThe act of pursuing again.
Fair tradewinds — hoisted all sails & went in repursuit of our island.
2007, Wesley Walker, Palmyra: The True Story of an Island Tragedy, B&E Press, page 8762 more examples
On the other hand, even if Highway’s hard-drinking, bar-fighting, recruit-abusing figure is also a cliché, his grieving over Heartbreak Ridge is not, and neither is his emotional isolation and repursuit of his ex-wife, whatever its conventional romanticcomedy affinities.
2012, Leonard Engel, New essays on Clint Eastwood, University of Utah Press, page 229So much so that he leaves open the possibility that the “socially responsible" role he'll soon emerge to try may involve the repursuit of eloquence through the spoken word
1988, Robert O' Meally, New essays on Invisible man, Cambridge University Press, page 87
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