reactivate

Example Sentences

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This “”will inevitably reactivate the trauma of some victims…some of whom are not necessarily known to us,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

During REM sleep, scientists replayed the soundtracks linked to half of the unsolved puzzles to selectively reactivate those memories.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026

In later years, especially in older adults or in people whose immune systems are weakened, this dormant virus can reactivate and cause shingles.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

Customers can only reactivate frozen accounts, open new ones, or sign on to banking apps.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

In the months that followed the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, when other reactors around Japan went offline for maintenance, the government withheld approval for them to reactivate.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland