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as in to restore
to bring back to a former condition or vigor
a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company
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as in to revive
to bring back to life, practice, or activity
the new director hopes to revivify interest in the sports programs offered at the youth center
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Recent Examples of revivify
Trying to revivify the tourism industry, the Egyptian government recently opened seven more tombs to the public.
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Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2011
The oatmeal and aloe combination will work to detangle and revivify dull coats, leaving your furbaby looking his best.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
Emergencies remind us that people admire selflessness and enjoy demands on their generosity, and that the community as a whole is revivified by such demands.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
Few films express as well as this one how an immigrant’s sadness at leaving one’s homeland is countered by the prospect of a revivifying renewal.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
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Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2011
The oatmeal and aloe combination will work to detangle and revivify dull coats, leaving your furbaby looking his best.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
Emergencies remind us that people admire selflessness and enjoy demands on their generosity, and that the community as a whole is revivified by such demands.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
Few films express as well as this one how an immigrant’s sadness at leaving one’s homeland is countered by the prospect of a revivifying renewal.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revivify
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This is part of a larger initiative to restore a particular and nostalgic vision of American culture.—
Harvey Young,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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The movement also serves as a positional breathing exercise that leverages breathwork to restore alignment and alleviate compensatory tension.—
Dana Santas,
CNN,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration has revived almost every negative stereotype that Europeans have about Americans: too loud, too brash, too big.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Scientists have already revived 30,000-year-old viruses from permafrost in Siberia—ones that were still infectious, though only to amoebas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Odds and futures refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live betting.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Luckily, there are some great curators out there with their own physical and virtual shops that regularly refresh their collections with wedding-worthy pieces.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2025
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But attempts to resurrect the Leviathan finally came to fruition in the late 1990s.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Mar. 2025
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An analog for the development of such an inland body of water occurred in early 2023 after rainwater from subsequent atmospheric rivers breached levees and berms to resurrect Tulare Lake (known as Pa’ashi to the Tachi Yokut Tribe).—
Priya Shukla,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Trump has renewed his pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates to help ease the pain of tariffs as more Americans become worried again about their financial situation.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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The Rick Pitino-John Calipari rivalry is renewed with the Johnnies and Razorbacks’ second-round meeting.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Revivify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revivify. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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