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reopen

[ree-oh-puhn] / riˈoʊ pən /


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Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures has taken over the lease for the Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades and intends to reopen the cinema, which has been closed since the January 2025 Palisades fire last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Adam Checkley from Network Rail, said: "Our teams have now cleared the issue allowing the route to reopen, but with trains and their crew out of position, delays and cancellations will continue throughout the day."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But a government watchdog recently cleared Powell of criminal wrongdoing in a costly Fed renovation project, and US Attorney General Todd Blanche said he would not reopen an investigation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The new findings reopen questions about whether the environmental conditions associated with Snowball Earth influenced the origin and early evolution of animal life.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I am told there are plans to reopen thejohn Street theater,” she said loudly.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The scandal is expected to dominate the agenda in parliament, which reopens on Thursday afternoon.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

“No level of the funds rate reopens a shipping lane,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

It will again return to the Getty when it reopens, just in time for the 2028 L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

It was put in storage and is due to be displayed at the London Museum when it reopens in November.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

I began noticing their absence most acutely when restaurants reopened after the first wave of the pandemic.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Louvre has reopened its Apollo Gallery, but all the remaining jewelry in it has been removed, resulting in an empty, 17th-century ceremonial gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Last month, the company reopened reservations, asking for an initial $5,000 payment and another $45,000 to be paid within 10 days.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Then, in 2007, it was closed again to replace the trains with lighter ones and reopened the next year as X2.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The jarring trip down the mountain has reopened her wound.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The IMF forecast is predicated on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz by March 2027 and a return to prewar conditions broadly by the following October.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

When she and her husband, a high school theater, launched their comedy club at the Bergamot Station Arts Center, schools and businesses were reopening after the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

After reopening on Wednesday, Grimston Medical Centre said it would not be commenting "on the circumstances surrounding the tragic death" of Hannah Cain.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

China’s sole major economic data release is September foreign-exchange reserves on Wednesday, leaving investors focused on the reopening of markets after the Golden Week holiday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act detrimentally on Jonathan.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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