revivify
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And I think for America to make this comeback, we need to figure out how to revivify place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“Living cultures take symbols and then revivify them and give them meaning.”
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
“Cyrano” joins a crop of recent movies that have sought to revivify the musical form: Here, the effort is uneven, if ultimately deeply moving.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
Confucius had hoped to revivify Chow—had begun with that hope, at any rate: Mencius hoped to raise up some efficient sovereign who should overturn Chow.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
It’s a wishful advertisement for a revivified nation, one swept clean of conflict and damage, a view sustained in the work of his students.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Undoubtedly, though, the marriage of Spears and Shakespeare will be one of the most talked-about convergences of a revivified D.C. theater scene.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2021
Their choice is pure vanity, favoring a sculpted bod over a revivified brain.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2020
The National Research Council, which had been founded in 1916 as a conduit of government funds to academic institutions but had been hobbled by political infighting and academic mistrust, became revivified in the postwar years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Also revivifying is the way Turner reshapes the wedding genre for our time, inviting new characters to the party.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But after entropy, narcissism and spiritual decay comes revivifying destruction.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020
Will Bedlam, a New York company devoted to exploring the immediacy of the actor-audience relationship, work similar revivifying miracles when it brings its pared productions of “Hamlet” and “Saint Joan” to the Broad Stage?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
The breeze was at once fresh and warm; to inhale the delicious air of which she had so long been deprived was like a revivifying draught for Johanna.
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
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Power Prefix: re-
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