restage

verb

re·​stage (ˌ)rē-ˈstāj How to pronounce restage (audio)
restaged; restaging

transitive verb

: to stage (something) again
The play was restaged abroad.

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From paparazzi photos to footage recorded at the scene by the forensics team to TV news reports to interviews with Knox, plenty of imagery exists from throughout this story—much of which already appeared in the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox before being restaged, shot-for-shot, in Twisted. Judy Berman, Time, 20 Aug. 2025 The three sections, ‘The Garden,’ ‘The Replica,’ and ‘Then Roses,’ contain several discrete instances of restaging the same poem – ‘The Twenty-First Century,’ ‘Author’s Myth,’ ‘Borges Sells Me the Apple, Sells Me the World’ – as Sisyphean attempts. Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 The opera will be restaged at the opera festival in Aix, roughly 50 miles away, on July 13, 14 and 16. Laura Van Straaten, New York Times, 11 July 2025 Yet that’s been a steady drumbeat in the Jurassic Worlds since the 2015 installment, which restaged the T. rex goat-eating scene from the original Jurassic Park — one of the most incredible reveals since the one in Jaws — from the perspective of a blasé teen who turns away to take a call. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for restage

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of restage was in 1893

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“Restage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restage. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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