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
Old villains will reanimate like zombies and new ones will form like mega Deadites come to wipe out your whole family — chosen or otherwise.
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
As part of the 3 Arrows of the Abenomics plan to reanimate a moribund Japanese economy, Japan permitted its government pension fund, GPIF, to invest more of its capital in foreign assets.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
As part of the 3 Arrows of the Abenomics plan to reanimate a moribund Japanese economy, Japan permitted its government pension fund, GPIF, to invest more of its capital in foreign assets.
—Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reanimate
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Officers and paramedics rendered aid but the man could not be revived.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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The Western North-South Connector Study received public opposition and was tabled for a time, but revived after residents of the area began asking for help with traffic congestion.—
Ron Wood,
arkansasonline.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Kitchen 57 has also resurrected its brunch with new cocktails and special menu items, like short rib hash and popovers with homemade berry jam — and of course those necessities, bottomless mimosas and two-for-one Bloody Marys and Micheladas.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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The irony is striking—the man who built his political brand on confronting China now fights to resurrect one of its most effective tools for gathering American data.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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In the latter scenario, Congress would consider border and defense legislation first and then renew Trump’s 2017 tax cuts later in the year.—
David Sivak,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Jan. 2025
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One of Real Madrid's top transfer targets will snub the Spanish soccer giant by not joining it on a free transfer this summer and instead renewing terms with his current employers according to MARCA, which cited anonymous sources.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reanimate. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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