as in to revive
to bring back to life, practice, or activity
the new multiplex has begun to reanimate the shabby neighborhood
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Recent Examples of reanimate
So many recent revisitations of old properties play like corporate attempts to reanimate the dead — literally, in the case of movies like Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Alien: Romulus.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Painstakingly reanimating a digital world A still from The Remarkable Life of IbelinCourtesy of Netflix/World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment
Still, Ree needed to reconstruct these events in the world of the video game.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
The single also manages to reanimate and return to the Hot R&B Songs chart.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Painstakingly reanimating a digital world A still from The Remarkable Life of IbelinCourtesy of Netflix/World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment
Still, Ree needed to reconstruct these events in the world of the video game.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
The single also manages to reanimate and return to the Hot R&B Songs chart.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Akhtar reanimates this dialectical discussion of artistic freedom in the fraught context of AI.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reanimate
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This past April, O’Grady won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, which was to support a new performance art piece reviving an old character from her past work.Benjamin Sutton, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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That was just one of several costly acquisitions likely to be unwound as the company struggles to revive itself.The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
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Leave a comment View Comments Iwasa isn’t the only artist who Murakami has chosen to resurrect using the most cutting-edge instrument of the information age.Leah Dolan, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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As part of its bill of particulars, the GOP report resurrects an old yarn, originated by Trump acolytes at the State Department in 2020 and promoted by the Wall Street Journal, that three researchers at the WIV became sick with what may have been COVID in the autumn of 2019.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Maher, having just renewed for another two seasons, is likely to at least match Letterman.Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 10 Dec. 2024
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After his election in January 2022, Mayor Adams continued the practice, renewing it with his signature every five days.Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reanimate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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