REPASSED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

repassed

verb

past tense of repass

as in enacted

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But Marxists who dreamed of a workers’ republic could not compete with the reformers in Congress who enacted such measures as a progressive income tax, antitrust legislation, and a ban on child labor.

— Michael Kazin, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Cuba has enacted a raft of economic reforms aimed at opening up the private sector, but Cuba's leaders have said not to expect political reform.

— Matt Gutman, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

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Welcoming refugees has been a matter of bipartisan consensus in the United States since Congress passed the Refugee Act with overwhelming support in 1980.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Part of the legislation passed the House earlier this summer with bipartisan support.

— Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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The show reenacted a 1978 altercation in which McConaughey’s Dickens confronted Bell after Bell allegedly exposed himself to children.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Aug. 2026
Last year, in honor of her 24th birthday, comedian and actor Grace Reiter and a few friends reenacted The Hunger Games from memory.

— Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026

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The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993.

— Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
America was cultural dynamism that constituted soft power, from Hollywood and hip-hop to the once finest university system in the world.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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Around the same time, fears of a smaller Chinese crop brought about by an exceptionally hot summer in Xinjiang were alleviated by stronger-than-expected yields.

— SJ Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Where the younger Lee prefers to engage is with his new case, brought about by his new love interest.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

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