regenerator
noun
re·gen·er·a·tor
ri-ˈje-nə-ˌrā-tər 
1
: one that regenerates
2
: a device used especially with hot-air engines or gas furnaces in which incoming air or gas is heated by contact with masses (as of brick) previously heated by outgoing hot air or gas
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What happened to Kendra Licari? After months of investigating, the FBI eventually got involved and subpoenaed records from the phone number regenerator app to find the IP address of the cyberstalker.
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Creative Destruction And Financial Prudence Shiva, the destroyer and regenerator, embodies the principle of creative destruction.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Working in concert with progesterone and testosterone, estrogen influences nearly every cell, organ, and system in some way, acting as an anti-inflammatory, an antioxidant, a lubricant, a regenerator, and a regulator.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
One year after publishing our seven-part series, Monitor reporters Sara Miller Llana and Stephanie Hanes follow up with the activists and adapters, challengers and innovators, regenerators and conservationists of The Climate Generation.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
First, the regenerator’s electric field activates, and its PST heats up, as electrocalorical materials do.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
Way back in our evolutionary past, the common ancestors of people and salamanders could have been regenerators, since at least one distant relative of modern-day salamanders could do it.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
Invaders and regenerators Indigenous to the eastern United States, the eastern gray squirrel was eradicated from New York City sometime before the 1840s, and was later reintroduced to American cities in the mid-19th century.
—Kaitlyn Schwalje, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Creative Destruction And Financial Prudence Shiva, the destroyer and regenerator, embodies the principle of creative destruction.
—Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Working in concert with progesterone and testosterone, estrogen influences nearly every cell, organ, and system in some way, acting as an anti-inflammatory, an antioxidant, a lubricant, a regenerator, and a regulator.
—Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
One year after publishing our seven-part series, Monitor reporters Sara Miller Llana and Stephanie Hanes follow up with the activists and adapters, challengers and innovators, regenerators and conservationists of The Climate Generation.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
First, the regenerator’s electric field activates, and its PST heats up, as electrocalorical materials do.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
Way back in our evolutionary past, the common ancestors of people and salamanders could have been regenerators, since at least one distant relative of modern-day salamanders could do it.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
Invaders and regenerators Indigenous to the eastern United States, the eastern gray squirrel was eradicated from New York City sometime before the 1840s, and was later reintroduced to American cities in the mid-19th century.
—Kaitlyn Schwalje, National Geographic, 20 June 2019
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“Regenerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regenerator. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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