revivify
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And I think for America to make this comeback, we need to figure out how to revivify place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“Living cultures take symbols and then revivify them and give them meaning.”
From New York Times ● May 7, 2022
The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
If anyone can revivify the Frankenstein story, it’s adventurous, prize-winning British writer Jeanette Winterson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
When the Bill was published, he issued notes upon it, in concert with Mr. Cobb, M.P. for the Rugby Division, condemning the absence of any attempt to 'reform and revivify the parish.'
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Their choice is pure vanity, favoring a sculpted bod over a revivified brain.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2020
“In effect, he performed emergency surgery and totally revivified the brand,” Steele told The Washington Post.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
The year 2016 leaves us with a bumper crop of familiar but acutely revivified subjects for introspection: Who are we?
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2016
The National Research Council, which had been founded in 1916 as a conduit of government funds to academic institutions but had been hobbled by political infighting and academic mistrust, became revivified in the postwar years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Later, we hiked down to the river’s banks, where the Black Rock Hot Springs’s steamy, revivifying waters were a welcome relief from the chilly temperatures.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But after entropy, narcissism and spiritual decay comes revivifying destruction.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020
There is something in the revivifying effects of this mixture that is quite peculiar.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
Vocabulary lists containing revivify
Power Prefix: re-
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