How to Use restate in a Sentence

restate

verb
  • She needs to restate her arguments.
  • If emotions spike, pause, then restate the main goal in plain words.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
  • What better time than the new year to restate your team’s purpose.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • If emotions rise, pause and restate what’s been agreed on in simple terms.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Their tendency to restate themselves, though, shows up in large ways and small.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 July 2022
  • Why doesn’t your daughter want to restate something more kindly?
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Don’t hesitate to ask the person to restate the question or prompt.
    — Avery Blank, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The pages restate themes and jokes, the same words on many pages, each with little iterations.
    — Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And again, Cook was simply restating something he's said in the past.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • If someone challenges your plan, acknowledge their point, then restate the goal and the next step.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • If tension rises, restate your point simply.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
  • So why did Congress feel the need to restate what Treasury already can do?
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This just restates reality and has nothing to do with the case’s merits.
    — Christopher B. Summers, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
  • Numbers from the pre-merger era have been restated to exclude free trials.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
  • If a gatekeeper hesitates, breathe and restate your win.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Fortune does not restate the prior year’s figures for changes in accounting.
    — 财富中文网, 25 July 2023
  • Musk also restated his goal to have Robotaxis in dozens of major cities by the end of the year.
    — Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In a follow-up post on X, Khanna restated his support for a wealth tax.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Our concerns about climate change, to restate the obvious, are not for the climate itself.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • The bill just restates what the Constitution already says.
    — Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • There is no need to restate all that has happened since the election only months ago, and there is no point trying, as the picture changes by the hour.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Post updated to restate the method in the fourth-to-last paragraph for detecting BitB pages.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Officials restated the case for a tool that pools resources -- something akin to a common euro-area budget.
    — Craig Stirling, Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2020
  • Many students are taught to restate the question to help guide their writing, but now, with machines scoring their work, that can result in a score of zero.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The homelessness crisis won’t be solved by sticking our head in the sand, denying the scale of the problem, and restating old talking points.
    — Kevin Corinth, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The earnings were postponed as the company had to restate its results for the prior three years due to some accounting errors.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Until Minnesota gets the message about too-high taxes, that message needs to be restated.
    — Pioneer Press Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2017
  • The North is restating its long-time position, and better for the world to know the truth going into the summit than bank on false hopes.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • If tension surfaces in a chat or client meeting, ground yourself by restating the facts, then suggest a next step everyone can accept.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026

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