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  • n  backflow of blood through a defective heart valve
  • n  recall after rote memorization
    he complained that school was just memorization and regurgitation
  • n  the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  • When did the job of the news hounds become nothing but regurgitation of what other people are saying? Aren't journalists supposed to get to the truth, and tell us what they find .
  • His defense: that when he had cried "Hoch!" he had swallowed his cigaret, that the supposed catcalls were "reflex regurgitation.
  • Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over.
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in U.S. News & World Report
    Obama said, "John McCain's policies are essentially a repeat, a regurgitation, of what we've been hearing from the Republican Party."
  • Peter Guber in USA Today
    Knight, Guber says, may benefit from the passage of time and by Ledger's role as villain: "In today's world, the media digestion and regurgitation of information is so rapid that even the bad news passes out of the ether quickly. The fact that it's...
  • Bernard Fanning in Sydney Morning Herald
    Fanning said the original was "basically a regurgitation of what I had read in the papers : it was really just bad luck with the timing. I'm told that three months ago we would have been all right."

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