reinvent
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Spies always reminds her students that it’s up to them to reinvent the wheel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Named as Bottega Veneta's creative director in 2021, he helped reinvent the Italian leather goods brand, earning him the nickname the "magician of Milan".
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Miami is an area in which Carnegie Mellon can reinvent not only what students learn, but how they learn,” said Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
At the same time, it has invested billions in an effort to reinvent itself for an electric future.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
At the opposite end lies “idea diffusion,” when you receive little more than the basic idea and have to reinvent the details.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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She reinvents herself repeatedly, moving around North America and ultimately to Paris, but wherever she goes she runs into people from the party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Nolan reinvents him as a naive young soldier left outside the horse to sell Odysseus’ deception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"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
By imitating del Verrocchio, by immersing himself in the busy life of the workshop, Leonardo learns how to paint—and then reinvents how to paint.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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When it was reinvented in the 19th century, the result was notably weaker than the Roman kind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He’s someone who’s reinvented himself over and over and over again — done records that are very different than the record before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
She reinvented herself with powders, creams, and glosses.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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Having finally won the Premier League title, Arteta is reinventing his side again.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
Some are reinventing the distinctly American fare with international flavors, while others are elevating it—sometimes quite literally—to a fine-dining level, with prices to match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Where Newcomen had put two and two together to make the steam engine, Desaguliers, in order to explain its working, has taken them apart again, reinventing Papin’s atmospheric wind-gun.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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