reboot
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If the past is prologue, everyone will have a problem with the reboot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Merz has vowed to return the CDU to its conservative roots and launched a crackdown on irregular immigration while trying to reboot a stagnant economy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
With the spooky genre dominating theaters, it was only a matter of time before the studios reopened their vaults to reboot classics as TV series.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Ralph Fulton, the founder of Leamington Spa-based Playground Games, told me the 2027 reboot of the role-playing classic Fable had "two tonal pillars" - "Britishness" and "fairy tales".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Sometimes it gets jammed up and stalls, and we have to reboot it and start all over.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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The drama, which concluded its five-season run in 1981, inspired two reboots: 2000’s “Charlie’s Angels” and its 2003 sequel “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” starring Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore, who produced the films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
The path these men blazed led to the endless sequels and prequels, remakes and reboots, churned out by the corporate-owned, IP-obsessed studios of the 2020s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
And John Nugent, from Empire, says previous reboots have veered into the realms of parody but this revival "goes back to basics".
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
Director Fede Álvarez reboots the franchise for a new generation by deftly blending the horror of the first movie with the adrenaline-spiking action of the second, along with a little too much goofy fan service.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
The 31-year-old actor who recently starred in Nosferatu and Juror #2 feels confident that this version of Superman will buck the trend of failed reboots.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
And a refreshingly rebooted Kyle Tucker, the $60-million-per-year outfielder who for weeks was colder than dry ice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
But then a new generation rediscovers and reclaims it, until suddenly it’s being rebooted by a “Sundance wunderkind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The franchise was launched by superstar Amitabh Bachchan in 1978 and rebooted by Akhtar with Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
While there’s no doubt the boycott irreversibly shifted public perception of the franchise in its rebooted state, “Scream 7” managed a record-breaking opening weekend gross of $63.6 million, the franchise’s largest before inflation is adjusted.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
Brightbill hugged his mother’s face as her computer brain rebooted.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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Billy is the star of the original “Camp Miasma” that Kris is rebooting, and she’s just given Kris permission to be as weird as she needs to be in order to come.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Even more frightening is the fact he's rebooting for version 2.0.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
President Ahmed al-Sharaa has been rebooting Syria's international credentials and seeking to revive his struggling country after toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Tech giants have been backing everything from small modular nuclear reactors to rebooting shutdown reactors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
I began rebooting my life, reconnecting with groups devoted to refugees and human rights.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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