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reanimate

[ree-an-uh-mayt] / ˌriˈæn əˌmeɪt /


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As the original firebrands age, a new generation looks to tinker with the system, loosen its ideological strictures, and even reanimate a national compact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Who knows, maybe it’ll be a hit and they’ll figure out another way to reanimate this utterly uninspiring horror villain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

The flowers seemed to reanimate in the candlelight, blooming and dying with each flicker.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

A growing list of energy companies are lining up to get similar authorizations so they can cash on pending debt in Venezuela and reanimate oil and gas production along with PDVSA.

From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 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 Alexander Maclaren

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

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’s a crazy story about Bella Baxter, a woman who is reanimated to life when her own baby’s brain is put into her head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

A lich was an undead creature, usually an incredibly powerful wizard or king who had employed dark magic to bind his intellect to his own reanimated corpse, thus achieving a perverted form of immortality.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The dialogue in his plays, a breathlessly hilarious assault, would seem an ideal way of reanimating the movie’s desperate outer-borough dreamers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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

But the idea of reanimating the dead hasn't.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022

When Edwin caught Big James’s eye he clapped again, reanimating the general approval, and Big James gazed at him with bland satisfaction.

From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett


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