REPASSES Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

repasses

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present tense third-person singular of repass

as in lays down

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What’s more, Sorrell notes that carbs are also the only macronutrient that contain fiber (a large russet brings about four grams if eaten skin-on).

— Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
Poetry is a form that relies on—or brings about—the failure of language.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of brings about

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The legislation enacts new work requirements and greater vetting for Medicaid, the low-income program that thousands of Alaskans depend on for healthcare.

— Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
The rest of the network enacts the decision, as other genes are activated or suppressed farther downstream, but isn’t active in it.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of enacts

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This interservice competition may increasingly normalize what constitutes acceptable coercion below the nuclear threshold and shape targeting priorities, as well as escalation management.

— Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026
The question of what constitutes an official announcement is resolved by the SEC declaring a company's S-1 effective, an IPO pricing or an exchange assigning a ticker to the stock.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

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Even if October passes without another conflagration, November brings its own hazards.

— Ali Vaez, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Equatic pumps seawater through an electrolyzer, where an electric current passes through a sandwich of plastic and metal plates and separates the water into two streams, one alkaline and one acidic, while also producing oxygen and hydrogen.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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