reinvestigate
verb
re·in·ves·ti·gate
(ˌ)rē-in-ˈve-stə-ˌgāt 
reinvestigated; reinvestigating
: to investigate (something) again
… decided to use modern police methods to reinvestigate the case.—
Robert Wainwright
Robert Wainwright
reinvestigation
noun
plural reinvestigations
During the past 30 years, new discoveries and reinvestigations of long-forgotten specimens have coalesced into a flood of transitional fossils.
—Maureen Greenbaum
Maureen Greenbaum
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The cause of death of Philadelphia school teacher Ellen Greenberg, who was found brutally stabbed in 2011, will be reinvestigated after a pathologist who previously ruled her death a suicide reversed course last week.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2025
John has continually called for local police to reinvestigate the case and find his daughter’s killer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Last month, an Alameda County judge threw out involuntary manslaughter charges against two of three officers accused in the death of Mario Gonzalez in 2021, the only other case of the six that has been reinvestigated.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
That evidence first came to light when the Nashville district attorney’s office, through its conviction-review unit, began reinvestigating the case in 2023.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2024
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2025
John has continually called for local police to reinvestigate the case and find his daughter’s killer.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Last month, an Alameda County judge threw out involuntary manslaughter charges against two of three officers accused in the death of Mario Gonzalez in 2021, the only other case of the six that has been reinvestigated.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
That evidence first came to light when the Nashville district attorney’s office, through its conviction-review unit, began reinvestigating the case in 2023.
—Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Reinvestigate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reinvestigate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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