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• One way to reinvent the wheel is to replace it with legs.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Most of the time, urban planners do not have to reinvent the wheel.
  — Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
• Like the movie itself, the performance doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel in terms of how a good man goes evil.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
• Instead of burning lots of cash to reinvent the wheel, use an off-the-shelf product.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The writers always figure out how to reinvent the wheel of our show.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2023
• Know that whole axiom about not needing to reinvent the wheel?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
• Fortunately, there is no need to start from scratch and reinvent the wheel.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Oct. 2023
• Why reinvent the wheel when a wheel of baked brie is going to make wishes come true anyway?
  — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2022
• Thankfully, there’s no need for the new president to reinvent the wheel.
  — Moises Naim, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• No one should have to reinvent the wheel to survive this current change in economic pace.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2021
• There’s no need to reinvent the wheel each time, just to tweak it occasionally.
  — April Rudin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Perhaps more brands could benefit from the wisdom of not trying to reinvent the wheel.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Big ideas, then, can only reinvent the wheel or make magical claims.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2011
• Time is running out, so letting nature help us, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, makes sense.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
• No need to reinvent the wheel, just replicate the natural model you've been given.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
• Larsson didn’t have to deliver a magic formula or reinvent the wheel — or in this case, the puck.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• The food and agriculture sector doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel, Kubalsky said, and can learn lessons from other industries.
  — James Rundle, WSJ, 15 June 2023
• Young people tend to want to get out and do experiments, but a few days searching PubMed may save someone years of work trying to reinvent the wheel.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2017
• These details are no surprise, as Waters and chef David Tanis aren’t attempting to reinvent the wheel at Lulu.
  — Sunset Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel or start something from scratch, see if there are already people working on initiatives in your city or state.
  — Ian Kumamoto, SELF, 24 Aug. 2023
• As with any other developer or investor, why reinvent the wheel?
  — Johan Hajji, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Just as with successive versions of seasonal flu vaccines, Gilbert said, the developers do not need to reinvent the wheel each time.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• Enders Analysis' Tom Harrington says that the company tried to reinvent the wheel.
  — Georg Szalai, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2020
• The Oscars may be one of Hollywood's longest-running and most prized traditions — but that never stops the Academy from trying to reinvent the wheel.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• Chapter 4 provides both, right on time, and doesn’t seek to reinvent the wheel in either case — Stahelski and his crew just make sure there’s plenty of tread left on those respective set-piece tires.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023
• In the past, Amazon has partnered with major players and ended up throwing away $100 million on a losing health care venture called Haven that tried to reinvent the wheel and failed after three years.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
• Mikos Adams, a social media and marketing coach and an Adobe Express Ambassador, says small businesses don’t have to reinvent the wheel to drive growth on social.
  — Satta Sarmah Hightower, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Fans who have been following them since their 1999 debut Melody A.M., will readily acknowledge that Röyksopp didn’t reinvent the wheel.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022
• The 44-year-old Naperville entrepreneur knows how to reinvent the wheel, helping bring dealer automobile sales into the digital age.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• And, rather than wiping the slate clean or attempting to reinvent the wheel, the fashion industry appears to be revisiting its own fundamentals to pave the way toward something new.
  — Dale Arden Chong, ELLE, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024