How to Use reanimate in a Sentence
reanimate
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In the film, Dr. Baxter decides to reanimate a woman’s corpse by placing her brain with the brain of an unborn child.
—Valerie Wu, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
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Or Armstrong could take a sharp left turn and reanimate Roy’s rotten corpse.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2024
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The man whose invention could reanimate the dead had vanished, never to be seen again.
—Nat Segnit, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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Lovelace is a key figure in the development of the computer, and the perfect subject to be reanimated in this way.
—Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
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Dustin tries to reanimate his relationship with Lauren in order to gain her support in his rewrite of the script.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2022
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West's low-budget first film finds a quartet of friends being menaced by bats whose victims reanimate into the walking dead.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2022
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Simon hatches a spell that reanimates them until five questions are asked.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
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Booth speaks about seeing a physicist use electricity to reanimate the corpse of a criminal.
—Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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If the enema didn’t reanimate the victim, a rescuer might try shaking the person vigorously, blood-letting, or even applying red-hot irons to the bottom of the feet.
—Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
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Speaking of that mystery, watching eight dead bodies reanimate and walk around town like zombies was very unsettling.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 June 2023
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When the film opens, Alejandro is working at a cryogenic facility where dying people pay large sums of money to be frozen in the hope of being reanimated in the future.
—Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
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The Black Manosphere breathes new life into these long-standing cultural memes and helps to reanimate their virulence in digital spaces.
—Nicole Young, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
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Dredged from the river after committing suicide, Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is reanimated, possessing the body of a woman and the brain of a baby.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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In short, a medical student decides to reanimate the corpse of his fiancée after she’s killed in a freak lawnmower accident at a barbecue.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 24 Oct. 2023
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One of the pleasures of popular history is the retrieval of fascinating but forgotten episodes that reanimate an epic era.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2023
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To show that senescent melanocytes ooze out a molecule that reanimates follicles, the team engineered mice with nevi to not produce osteopontin.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 12 July 2023
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This year, the Ig Nobels honored research ranging from reanimating dead spiders to studying people who can speak backward.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
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But Young saw an opportunity, like with Dante itself, to reimagine and reanimate this old Italian classic.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2022
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Perhaps the very forces that facilitated our exile from Eden will one day reanimate our garden with digital life.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
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Crimson founder Robert Fripp reanimated King Crimson in 1981 after a seven-year hiatus.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
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The event will cap off the committee’s year-long investigation into whether Congress should reanimate antitrust laws born in the Gilded Age and apply them to the barons of the 21st century digital economy.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 July 2020
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These details don’t fully reanimate either character, but their tang intimates how much remains out of reach.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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Burkhart was the first to use his brain to reanimate his own paralyzed arm using muscular electrical stimulation.
—Elissa Welle, STAT, 18 July 2022
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The union was worried that studios could use artificial intelligence to reanimate dead actors, or to create a digital Frankenstein out of the body parts of real actors.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
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On a random summer day in Oslo, the recently deceased are reanimated, an unexplained event marked by flocks of panicked birds, power outages, traffic lights on the fritz and car alarms spontaneously going off.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
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She’s reanimated by a scientist (Willem Dafoe) who raises her as experiment and daughter.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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They’ve been lightly edited — and reanimated — for clarity and your enjoyment.
—Tara Booth, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
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Advertisement This touring production has been brought in to reanimate the Taper during its programming hiatus.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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Jokes aside, the conversation surrounding The Embrace reanimates the ongoing debate about how to memorialize Black history, which is largely missing from public space.
—Curbed, 20 Jan. 2023
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Once frozen, these samples can be reanimated for future conservation and research efforts and will be shared to numerous organizations.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
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