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regenerate

[ri-jen-uh-rayt, ri-jen-er-it] / rɪˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt, rɪˈdʒɛn ər ɪt /


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Benefits: Creatine helps skeletal muscles regenerate ATP for energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The prime minister has announced a £210m package to regenerate the UK's communities and high streets.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The image is at once hokey and compelling, suggesting in unwieldy terms that the monster Hansen has been chasing is like a Hydra: cut off its head, and it’ll regenerate with two more.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Despite major damage to epithelial tissue, the larvae were able to regenerate fully functional wings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

If he knocks me off my board, I’ll go tumbling into oblivion and regenerate behind everyone.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Bamboo grows faster than eucalyptus and regenerates like a weed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

At the end of an actor's tenure as the Doctor, the character "regenerates" with somebody else then taking on the extra-terrestrial role.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023

When I ask about jararanko, he says “the lizard has a healing property that is astringent—it absorbs bruises and regenerates fractures or fissures.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 26, 2023

Japan’s high rainfall also ensures that its forest regenerates quickly after logging.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

By the early 2000s, the results were clear: mountain ash regenerated best on clearfell sites.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Panettiere gave a likeably sparky performance as Claire, a cheerleader who regenerated if she was physically harmed, and who was at the heart of the show's "save the cheerleader, save the world" premise.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was to follow on from the series finale in May 2025, in which Ncuti Gatwa's incarnation of the Doctor regenerated into Billie Piper, who previously played the Doctor's assistant, Rose.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Although the regenerated tissues were not exact matches to the original anatomy, the researchers successfully restored all of the major structures that had been removed during amputation, including bone, tendon, ligament, and joint tissue.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

This xenograft, as it’s called, would stay in place until the underlying tissue had regenerated enough to supply blood to the skin graft.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Most notably, the samples began regenerating articular cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

In one video I found, Cramer, a serious-looking man in his 40s, discussed “holographic regenerating medical beds” back in 2015.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

These trees "need natural disturbances such as fires," according to the government department Environment Canada, but suffer from repeated, intense fires that prevent them from regenerating.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

And instead of a knee or hip replacement, you could get new bone and joint treatments designed to reverse physical decline entirely by regenerating tissue in damaged joints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

The presence of telomerase meant cells could keep regenerating their telomeres indefinitely.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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