reconsider
verb
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Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2024
Attorneys for the man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas pleaded with a Santa Clara County judge on Friday to reconsider their client’s decades-old death sentence, arguing that a new state law mandates he be given another chance to avoid execution.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
Factors like mass and gravity can affect how time passes—here on Earth, even the gradual redistribution of mass due to sea ice melt is forcing scientists to reconsider our timekeeping.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, consumers strapped for cash are reconsidering buying expensive EVs and looking to alternatives.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
Wartime events could also push the two states to reconsider their stances.
—Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
But, in the wake of these growing concerns, some states have already reconsidered the library penalties.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
Many also are pushing for district leaders to reconsider its policy on fighting, with some feeling that more nuance is needed in situations where students are being discriminated against.
—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
Still, many Kenyans hope the pause will give the government time to reconsider.
—Lenny Rashid Ruvaga, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
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Word History
1571, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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