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
“Cyrano” joins a crop of recent movies that have sought to revivify the musical form: Here, the effort is uneven, if ultimately deeply moving.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 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
He began to think over what might be done to revivify the Protestant religion in France.
From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles
The men barrel out of the forest chastened but revivified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
Thirty years after its publication, this defining monograph of the writer’s photography has been revivified, thanks to digital scans of Welty’s work.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2019
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
Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
Miranda’s rap-sodic historical epic may not save the soul of a battered republic, but its consolations are real, its pleasures revivifying, its emotional force galvanic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
But the robustness of the entries as a whole was revivifying.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2020
But after entropy, narcissism and spiritual decay comes revivifying destruction.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020
The breeze was at once fresh and warm; to inhale the delicious air of which she had so long been deprived was like a revivifying draught for Johanna.
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Claire Von Gl?mer
Vocabulary lists containing revivify
Power Prefix: re-
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: re-
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