reinvent
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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
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
“I’ve seen the industry reinvent itself many times, but live has only grown more powerful,” Emanuel said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
She had accepted her parents’ money but not their control of her identity, and had taken advantage of her good fortune to reinvent herself, to find a different way of living.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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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
Holz: It is an execution story at this point, as the company kind of reinvents itself with a number of difficult-to-predict crosscurrents in the background.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2025
But perhaps his most powerful facet is that of a man who builds bridges, pushes others and constantly reinvents himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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
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Organisers said the streamlined format, which featured 10 sports across four locations in Glasgow, had "saved and reinvented" the competition after its future was placed in doubt when original hosts Victoria pulled out.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
IBM has reinvented itself many times, transitioning from tabulators and time clocks in its earliest days to personal computers, mainframes and supercomputers and later AI and hybrid cloud computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Jackson is a former social conservative who has reinvented himself into what he calls a “pickup-truck progressive.”
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
She reinvented herself with powders, creams, and glosses.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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Recording interviews and editing at home, for example, have been some of the ways to make this work but adapting and reinventing have always been part of my journalistic career.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
However, reinventing Beethoven at the Bowl, doing so following Dudamel and with little rehearsal time, could easily become a fool’s errand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
As high costs push workers away from Miami and Orlando, a sprawling community is reinventing itself as a middle-class haven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It seems that everyone in this house is reinventing themselves and no one is who they once were.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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