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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

This touring production has been brought in to reanimate the Taper during its programming hiatus.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2023

Chevron started preparing to reanimate operations at its joint ventures in Venezuela last year while submitting a license request to the U.S.

From Reuters Jan. 4, 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

Patrick Page’s traveling lecture-solo show reanimates Shakespeare’s villains in master class presentation at BroadStage.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2026

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

So, if we may say it, our Quickener bends Himself over all our deadness, and by His own warmth reanimates us.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

How could they not be a little worried to be facing a reanimated zombie team that blitzed 56-win Boston?

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

But then, the agency people unveiled their big idea: to create a campaign centered around reanimated digital avatars of our dead loved ones.

From Slate Apr. 23, 2026

But “Dead Lover” hews closer to Laura Moss’ modern medical take, “birth/rebirth,” and even more closely to Zelda Williams’ cute, poppy “Lisa Frankenstein,” in which a young seamstress stitches up a reanimated boyfriend.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

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

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

From “Poor Things” to “Lisa Frankenstein,” what do today’s revisions of Mary Shelley’s immortal tale mean — especially when women are doing the reanimating?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

"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

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

From Salon Apr. 9, 2022

He had always heard that Ministers were responsible to Parliament; and he had a vague conviction, notwithstanding the reanimating loyalty of the Bed-Chamber Plot, that the Sovereign of England was a nonentity.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield




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