as in to restart
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Recent Examples of reactivate
But her fanbase recently reactivated to revive Heartstrings online as a show of support.
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Some missions have been known to spend years hovering between life and death before reactivating.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
This is not resistance 1.0, but we are reactivated and reawakened.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
The long-dormant Lost Highway imprint had also been reactivated just last month under Mabe’s direction, with a Ringo Starr country album produced by T Bone Burnett as the first album under that umbrella.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Some missions have been known to spend years hovering between life and death before reactivating.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
This is not resistance 1.0, but we are reactivated and reawakened.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
The long-dormant Lost Highway imprint had also been reactivated just last month under Mabe’s direction, with a Ringo Starr country album produced by T Bone Burnett as the first album under that umbrella.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reactivate
Verb
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In stage two, they’re faced with visions of the past, and in stage three (the final stage), they’re reincarnated as something new, which restarts the six phases of life and death.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Vue chief pointed out that production didn’t meaningfully restart until February and March of 2024, creating a supply chain issue still affecting theatrical releases.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Striking that balance between commerce and culture, between artistic integrity and business growth, is no small feat, especially in an industry that is scaling down, reinventing itself, and fighting for relevance just to stay alive.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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In reinventing the franchise’s setting and focus, Escape essentially launches a separate timeline from what came before it.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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But what about refreshing your jeans for the warmer season ahead?—
Nicol Natale,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Kuleba left office in Sept. 2024 amid a major cabinet reshuffle designed to refresh the Ukrainian government and bring new ideas to the fore, at a time when Russian forces started making concerted gains in the east of country.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Octavia Spencer has resurrected a famous scene from her 2011 film The Help in honor of DOGE.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2025
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But by the end of 2023, adroit U.S. diplomacy had resurrected counternarcotics cooperation between the two countries.—
Vanda Felbab-Brown,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Reactivate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactivate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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