What's the difference between reaffirm and reiterate?
Reaffirm
Definition:
(v. t.) To affirm again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gynaecological and neurological lesions are reaffirmed as important causes and pathology within the urinary tract is found to be a more frequent component that is usually appreciated.
(2) Before the dramatic interruption to her speech, Marois reaffirmed her party's commitment an independent Quebec.
(3) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(4) Approximately one-third of the applicants whose initial determination was reaffirmed after reconsideration then requested a hearing.
(5) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(6) • The United Nations moved a step closer to calling for an end to excessive surveillance on Tuesday in a resolution that reaffirms the “ human right to privacy ” and calls for the UN’s human rights commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the impact of mass digital snooping.
(7) Xi and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, issued a joint communiqué reaffirming their opposition to a nuclear-armed North Korea.
(8) Signing a "squirrel accord" after meetings at one of his stately homes, the prince reaffirmed his desire to drive grey squirrels out of the UK in order to save our "much loved" native red squirrels .
(9) "This only reaffirms the need to tackle climate change as an immediate priority and highlights both the benefits of early action and the cost of inaction," said Neil Bentley, CBI Director of Business Environment.
(10) After having reviewed the previous NKF report on the issue of dialyzer reuse (American Journal of Kidney Diseases 3:466, 1984), the Task Force resolved that the principles of patient consent to dialyzer reuse and right to refuse a reused dialyzer as presented in the report be reaffirmed.
(11) The pathological features of the retina correlate well with the observed ERG changes, reaffirming the sheep as a useful model to delineate early events in ceroid lipofuscinosis.
(12) This idea suggests that general practitioners should reaffirm the importance to them of the intellectual discipline of science.
(13) Our findings reaffirm the usefulness and applicability of cell culture systems to model in vivo repair phenomena.
(14) A review of three hysterograms inadvertently performed during early pregnancy reaffirms the regular appearance of infiltration of aqueous opaque media into the substance of the decidua, producing the sign of the double-outlined uterine cavity.
(15) Carbon capture and storage (CCS) The government reaffirmed its commitment to paying £1bn for one demonstration plant to capture and store the carbon emissions from a coal power station.
(16) We also reaffirm our commitment to the full implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for Least Developed Countries (IPOA), the Almaty Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries, the Political declaration on Africa's development needs, and the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
(17) They reaffirm the need for rapid implementation of European Council conclusions of 28 and 29 June.
(18) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(19) In a new letter to Congress, Comey reaffirmed the FBI’s earlier assessment clearing Clinton of any criminal activity.
(20) In children with known associated severe medical maladies, diagnostic barium enema can serve to reaffirm the diagnosis prior to the hazardous operative intervention.
Reiterate
Definition:
(v. t.) To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.
(a.) Reiterated; repeated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(2) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(3) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(4) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
(5) Administration officials, briefing reporters ahead of the speech, said Obama would reiterate his commitment to cutting America's greenhouse gas emissions 17% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
(6) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
(7) An outer sheath was isolated from Treponema phagedenis biotype Reiter by our previously developed method (Masuda, K., and Kawata, T. 1982.
(8) This group includes the typical ankylosing spondylitis as well as atypical spondylopathies such as those occurring in psoriasis, Reiter's disease and chronic inflammatory enteropathies, which attack mainly the spine and secondarily the peripheral joints.
(9) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
(10) If it means calling in the French military to support the police, then so be it.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “Eurotunnel reiterates its call to the authorities to provide a solution to the migrant crisis and restore order to the Calais region.” The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.
(11) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
(12) The author concedes that a combined version with intact membranes prior to an attempt of vaginal delivery may have been desirable in his cases but he reiterates that a Caesarean section for the second twin was the only way to obtain healthy live infants in his three exceptional cases.
(13) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(14) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(15) Hall reiterated that the corporation does not believe that Yentob abused his position by influencing the BBC’s news coverage of the charity.
(16) T. phagedenis (biotype Reiter) was comparatively investigated and showed only two glycosylated proteins with molecular weights 33,000 and 34,000.
(17) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
(18) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(19) These data suggest the possibility that the smaller number of internal reiterations in EBV (W91) DNA may be a consequence of the additional unique DNA and a restriction in the overall size of EBV DNA.
(20) Liddiment reiterated concerns that BBC Radio 4 should also extend its appeal to a younger audience after the proportion of its listeners aged between 35 and 54 fell from 33% in 2000 to 26% last year.