reenacts

present tense third-person singular of reenact

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Recent Examples of reenacts During Muharram a community group will often stage a passion play (taʿziyyah) that reenacts the events of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom. Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026 Ordained to the Catholic priesthood in June, Jimenez was watching as parishioners acted out the Nativity scene during a posada, a Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem in search of shelter. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025 This 9-night event reenacts the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem with songs, costumes and music. Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025 In her letter, Austen also nearly reenacts in these lines the scene in which Elizabeth is insulted at the ball. Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025 One hundred twenty-five years later, on the same quay in Geneva, a theater troupe reenacts the event every Sunday. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reenacts
Verb
  • Sherman performs cult-favorite live stand-up shows under the moniker Sarah Squirm and has been with Saturday Night Live for five seasons, beginning in 2021.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 July 2026
  • The company says Inkling doesn't top the benchmarks but performs well across a range of tasks, including reasoning and coding.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • How a company executes may change over time, but its principles should not.
    Nadia AlShomali, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Soon after Rhaenyra executes Otto Hightower, who was once mastermind of that family’s schemes, Ormund steps up to be the faction’s new heavy.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • Florida prosecutes children as adults for serious crimes and sends juvenile offenders to adult prisons at higher rates than any other state.
    Jay Blitzman, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • Palm Beach County also has a state attorney who prosecutes cases for the entire county, including the Town of Palm Beach.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • When the first place beauty queen commits suicide, her best friend, in order to win the pageant, starts to wear the dead friend’s face.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 14 July 2026
  • The joint city-state Bus Action Plan also commits the MTA to improving bus maintenance across the fleet.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • Bill negotiation PocketGuard partners with Billshark, a company that negotiates for lower rates on your behalf.
    Catherine Collins, USA Today, 10 July 2026
  • The series stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a landman who negotiates on behalf of oil companies.
    Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • The video also recreates the viral promotional photo of all seven members standing in front of a row of toilets with their backs to the camera, bringing the song’s tabloid-style campaign full circle.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026
  • Shawn recreates situations that resonate with just about anyone, giving his content broad appeal.
    Leslie Horn Peterson, Time, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Like Blair, Zhang often depicts pets within a cameo frame as a gesture of old-fashioned memorializing.
    Felicia Feaster, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • Though the mural, which depicts a man in a headdress holding a spear, had been removed for conservation in 2004, the team relied on advanced imaging techniques to reconstruct both the work and its surrounding architecture.
    Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

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“Reenacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reenacts. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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