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reanimate

[ree-an-uh-mayt] / ˌriˈæn əˌmeɪt /


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As the original firebrands age, a new generation looks to tinker with the system, loosen its ideological strictures, and even reanimate a national compact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Who knows, maybe it’ll be a hit and they’ll figure out another way to reanimate this utterly uninspiring horror villain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

Chevron started preparing to reanimate operations at its joint ventures in Venezuela last year while submitting a license request to the U.S.

From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023

Hazel didn’t think it was so impressive compared to the powers of a guy who could reanimate skeletons and bring people back from the dead, but it felt good to surprise him for a change.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

However, NME wrote in a four-star review of the film that Ortega "reanimates" the undead classic and applauds her performance as a the "sharp, disenchanted daughter".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

For a scene in which a lab rat dies and then reanimates, Álvarez enlisted Tippett Studio, the outfit run by legendary effects master Phil Tippett, to make a model rodent move through stop-motion animation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024

Her revelatory, flawless reading of the challenging 1922 novel “Jacob’s Room” reanimates Woolf’s mercurial stream-of-consciousness prose, revealing her genius in ways perhaps lost on the casual reader, but conveyed through Stevenson’s painstakingly realized performance.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Peveril's antagonist, however—or rather the mask which the antagonist takes,—connects with the oldest legendary history of the island, for he reanimates the body of Gogmagog, the famous Cornish giant, whom Corineus slew.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

How could they not be a little worried to be facing a reanimated zombie team that blitzed 56-win Boston?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

But then, the agency people unveiled their big idea: to create a campaign centered around reanimated digital avatars of our dead loved ones.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

People were uploading old photographs of ancestors, then watching them blink, smile and move their heads as software "reanimated" their loved ones.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

Both are supernatural shows featuring a group of reanimated dead folks and a central relationship between sisters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Then, like Lazarus reanimated, his chest began to rise and fall.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The dialogue in his plays, a breathlessly hilarious assault, would seem an ideal way of reanimating the movie’s desperate outer-borough dreamers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

"We're reanimating the heart, in some sense, and in a way that we can study and potentially treat its dysfunction," Roche says.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

The team of researchers from Russia, Germany and France said the biological risk of reanimating the viruses they studied was “totally negligible” due to the strains they targeted, mainly those capable of infecting amoeba microbes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

Like Emma Cline, she is drawn to reanimating familiar cultural figures and tropes and tends to approach character-writing in terms of specialties — who has one, who might need a different one, who’s faking theirs.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

The reports of these successive adventures were not heard by Ojeda, who had continued to linger about the bishop of Fonseca, without reanimating his bold spirit.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh




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