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reinvent

[ree-in-vent] / ˌri ɪnˈvɛnt /


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Andrea, a 32-year-old mother who declined to give her surname because she felt ashamed of her predicament, tried to reinvent herself by starting a catering business after the stationary shop where she worked shut down.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

All book adaptations, whether from novels or memoirs, could stand to embellish the facts here and there, or go ahead and reinvent the wheel when possible.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

The European champions haven't tried to reinvent the wheel with this kit, but it oozes class.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

It always finds a way to reinvent itself — to become more daring, to fuse and bastardize.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

And yet it had not been possible to reinvent himself fully, to break from that mismatched name.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"Paris is alive, Paris is green, Paris is proud, Paris stands in solidarity, Paris is working class, Paris is feminist. It reinvents itself each generation," he said.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

When Guardiola reinvents his system, changes are made based on the players he has rather than a predetermined idea of what system he wants to play.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

Natalie Portman stars as Maddie Schwartz, a Jewish housewife who leaves her family and reinvents herself as an investigative journalist.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2024

From Mark Twain to John Steinbeck, every generation reinvents the King Arthur legend for itself.

From Seattle Times May 14, 2024

While Venia reinvents my eyebrows and Octavia gives me fake nails and Flavius massages goo into my hair, I hear all about the Capitol.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Jackson is a former social conservative who has reinvented himself into what he calls a “pickup-truck progressive.”

From Slate Jul. 11, 2026

Each generation reinvented the farm without erasing its history.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Her oldest sister, Sonia Gonzalez, said Gonzalez reminds her a lot of their father, who reinvented himself many times over the years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Now she’d reinvented herself again as queen of the Amazons.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

He isn’t reinventing this music as radically as have, say, pianists Fred Hersch, Jason Moran and Alexander von Schlippenbach.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

In the aftermath of her time on “The X Files,” Anderson moved to London, both because she longed for the city where she partially grew up and for a chance at reinventing herself professionally.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

"It isn't about saving something to preserve it. It is about reinventing something to give it the purpose and vision it needs to last," he added.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Like Los Angeles, the restaurant endured by reinventing itself.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

She was reinventing her life, rewriting her story.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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