reinvent
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In the video, the former Wham! frontman wore a leather jacket and aviator sunglasses while playing the guitar, as part of an attempt to reinvent his image.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“When you go through something like that,” he says, “you really start taking inventory of your life. There’s something about that that frees you up to take a risk. I was ready to reinvent myself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Andrea, a 32-year-old mother who declined to give her surname because she felt ashamed of her predicament, tried to reinvent herself by starting a catering business after the stationary shop where she worked shut down.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
All book adaptations, whether from novels or memoirs, could stand to embellish the facts here and there, or go ahead and reinvent the wheel when possible.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
After all, I was supposedly on a mission to do just that—to reinvent Ryan Dean West—in my junior year at Pine Mountain Academy.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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"Paris is alive, Paris is green, Paris is proud, Paris stands in solidarity, Paris is working class, Paris is feminist. It reinvents itself each generation," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
When Guardiola reinvents his system, changes are made based on the players he has rather than a predetermined idea of what system he wants to play.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
Martha Graham Dance Company reminds us that our city continually reinvents itself, with or without disasters like the Palisades and Eaton fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
From Mark Twain to John Steinbeck, every generation reinvents the King Arthur legend for itself.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
While Venia reinvents my eyebrows and Octavia gives me fake nails and Flavius massages goo into my hair, I hear all about the Capitol.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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As Sherland, he reinvented himself as a poet and, in 2020, he became president of the Robert Burns World Federation.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
He has since reinvented himself as a man of the people, melding a relaxed, folksy style with slick social media videos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Jackson is a former social conservative who has reinvented himself into what he calls a “pickup-truck progressive.”
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
Each generation reinvented the farm without erasing its history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Then three years ago Macy Palmer reinvented the wheel when she asked her boyfriend Simon to the dance by employing the Twelve Days of Christmas.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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After World War II the Beats were reinventing bohemia, giving the old wayward ways a hyperbolic intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Recording interviews and editing at home, for example, have been some of the ways to make this work but adapting and reinventing have always been part of my journalistic career.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He isn’t reinventing this music as radically as have, say, pianists Fred Hersch, Jason Moran and Alexander von Schlippenbach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the aftermath of her time on “The X Files,” Anderson moved to London, both because she longed for the city where she partially grew up and for a chance at reinventing herself professionally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
She was reinventing her life, rewriting her story.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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