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In the video, the former Wham! frontman wore a leather jacket and aviator sunglasses while playing the guitar, as part of an attempt to reinvent his image.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“When you go through something like that,” he says, “you really start taking inventory of your life. There’s something about that that frees you up to take a risk. I was ready to reinvent myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Just as an embryo retraces much of the human evolutionary past, so budding artists reinvent the first stages of art.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Cal McMau’s feature directorial debut hardly reinvents the formula, but it does remind audiences what remains so sturdy about the premise of an ordinary man trying to stay alive behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

"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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

By imitating del Verrocchio, by immersing himself in the busy life of the workshop, Leonardo learns how to paint—and then reinvents how to paint.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026

Ronaldo - the all-time leading scorer in international football with 146 goals - has reinvented Portuguese football, transforming its mentality like no player before him.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Each generation reinvented the farm without erasing its history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

From ‘Springtime for Hitler’ to Yogurt’s merchandising pitch in ‘Spaceballs,’ here are the many sides of a filmmaker who reinvented on-screen comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

In the course of this dispute, and with the example of Montaigne to hand, Arnauld reinvented the idea of the fact.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

After World War II the Beats were reinventing bohemia, giving the old wayward ways a hyperbolic intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Part of the beauty of that world is that it keeps reinventing itself. Every season being a new story takes on a different guise,” Coughlan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

I generally prefer, as a strategic matter, an elevation of shared values—inclusive, connective, moral language such as reclaiming, rather than reinventing or discarding.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

As AI threatens to make the billable hour obsolete, professional-services firms wrestle with reinventing how they charge clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Where Newcomen had put two and two together to make the steam engine, Desaguliers, in order to explain its working, has taken them apart again, reinventing Papin’s atmospheric wind-gun.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton