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 The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025 The scientists and guards just stand there a few feet away waiting for the super zombies to reanimate. Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 There, those who live along the border, which is reinforced by not one but three walls, are pushed, after a food crisis, to reanimate and eat extinct species—a process later appropriated by the superrich, for more voyeuristic amusements. David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025 They’re reanimated, pale, putrid corpses that are also seductive. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reanimate
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  • Carr, Trump's pick to lead the FCC, revived the complaint shortly after taking over.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Alessandro Michele revived this low-top, lace-up style in 2020, adding an archival label from the ’70s on the tongue, and keeping the textured GG sole, as well.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • Trump resurrected that version of the program, with law enforcement agencies in Florida signing over 100 task force model agreements since February.
    Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Easter is still a few days away, but the Lorde has been resurrected.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2025
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  • This gets you a one-year temporary residence permit that can be renewed annually.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Big advances in artificial intelligence have renewed some scientists’ dream of eventually understanding what dolphins are saying.
    Melissa Hobson, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reanimate. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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