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reinstate

[ree-in-stayt] / ˌri ɪnˈsteɪt /


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The prime minister's plan to reinstate the £2 cap on bus fares in England from January to be in effect throughout 2027.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Because Bubic is on the 60-day IL, the Dodgers will need to clear spots on the active and 40-man rosters to reinstate him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

In November 2023, when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired, hundreds of employees signed a public letter pressuring the board of directors to reinstate him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

On Thursday, an independent arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Attiah and restore her wages and benefits after she was fired in September for a social media post following the Turning Point USA co-founder’s death.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

The soldiers’ job was to reinstate the country’s democratically elected government, in the process stripping power from the junta—a government composed of military leaders—whose corrupt and cruel reign had gone on for three years.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The NCAA, meanwhile, is hoping an appeals court reinstates Sorsby’s ban.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The EU's goal is that Meta reinstates third-party AI assistants' access to WhatsApp under the same conditions as before its October 2025 policy change when it "effectively" barred them.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

“We hope the school board reinstates him promptly to his position as superintendent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

That language clearly reinstates any federal employee who was either told they’d be laid off during the shutdown or actually laid off.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

Digital television reinstates activity, and is subject to creative programming and interactivity.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

By August, the council had reinstated its five-star hygiene rating after it found the "business had addressed all matters identified during the original inspection".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Gold was briefly removed from the board during an inquiry but reinstated after a city investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

BBC Three, which is aimed at young audiences and launched hits such as Fleabag and Gavin & Stacey, previously moved online in 2016, but was reinstated as a TV channel in 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

It was removed from a sports photography festival in the northern French town of Deauville before a court ordered it reinstated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Two weeks earlier, Leslie had told me that I was to be “repatriated” and reinstated into normal society.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

Administrators have been able to adjust to those departures, including reinstating one worker who was able to regain employment authorization, Lavender said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

This included a cut to VAT on household electricity bills and business rate cuts for pubs, reinstating a £2 bus fare cap in England and holding initial cross-party talks on social care reform.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved reinstating the reward in the decade-old slaying and increasing it by $10,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

He did not endorse reinstating requirements or keeping the status quo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

But his contrition did not last long, for the next day he informed us he was reinstating all the charges against us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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