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reanimate

[ree-an-uh-meyt] / ˌriˈæn əˌmeɪt /


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Spear dies a hero at the second season’s close, only for a shaman to reanimate him in the third season premiere as a zombie.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2026

One of the pleasures here is witnessing both actors reanimate the rhythms of a long-ago conversation, their text absent the typical tidiness of a screenplay and instead an interwoven network of inflection, attitude, allusion.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

The exhibition endeavors to reanimate these artworks by re-awakening their sensory capacities.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 8, 2023

And they do so by using overlooked materials like those Lovell and Drucker so lovingly reanimate in their documentary, which won a special jury award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for clarity of vision.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2023

Hazel didn’t think it was so impressive compared to the powers of a guy who could reanimate skeletons and bring people back from the dead, but it felt good to surprise him for a change.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2024

However, NME wrote in a four-star review of the film that Ortega "reanimates" the undead classic and applauds her performance as a the "sharp, disenchanted daughter".

From BBC Sep. 9, 2024

Plant biologists report that a species of tree fern found only in Panama reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant.

From Science Daily Jan. 29, 2024

Her revelatory, flawless reading of the challenging 1922 novel “Jacob’s Room” reanimates Woolf’s mercurial stream-of-consciousness prose, revealing her genius in ways perhaps lost on the casual reader, but conveyed through Stevenson’s painstakingly realized performance.

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 2022

E'en Jove with strength reanimates the foe, 739 And stirs the powers of heaven to work the Dardan's woe.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

The readings ended optimism about stabilization and reanimated worries that the labor market has been quietly deteriorating.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Our memories have become forever digital debris to be sucked in, digested, and reanimated by machine learners.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2024

Stone picked up her second career Bafta, recognised for playing a British woman who is reanimated after being given the brain of a baby in steampunk fantasy Poor Things.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2024

What they are doing is creating trusts that will allow them to keep their money if they are reanimated in the far future.

From Salon Feb. 6, 2024

It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane’s attractions.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"We're reanimating the heart, in some sense, and in a way that we can study and potentially treat its dysfunction," Roche says.

From Science Daily Dec. 8, 2023

The team of researchers from Russia, Germany and France said the biological risk of reanimating the viruses they studied was “totally negligible” due to the strains they targeted, mainly those capable of infecting amoeba microbes.

From Seattle Times Nov. 29, 2022

The pun is inspired; it also reminds us that cinema has always been an art of channeling ghosts, of communing with and even reanimating the dead.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2022

One being that Mark's wife actually did die, and Lumon is somehow reanimating people.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2022

The traditional hydra with its reanimating heads was nothing to this scientific hydra, which, when bisected bodily, rises up calmly as two whole bodies.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams




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