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
Old family stories are hard to revivify, even when they’re good family stories.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
“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
He did not care very much for an antiquity which he could not revivify for his own vision.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse
The men barrel out of the forest chastened but revivified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
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
Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But the robustness of the entries as a whole was revivifying.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
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
There must be a quickening of the public conscience and a revivifying of the patriotism of the early fathers of the republic.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
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Power Prefix: re-
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