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Recent Examples of reactivate
Restore and reactivate the Belle Isle Boathouse for public use.
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Regions in the upper Mississippi embayment are probably reactivating older faults that formed when the rift basin was formed, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2025
Ebrahim Rezaei, Iran's National Security Commission spokesperson, told Iranian lawmakers that snapback sanctions would reactivate six past U.N. resolutions, including the arms embargo banning military sales to Iran as well as arms exports.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
That’s a significant jump from the roughly $2 million that the team’s previous owner, David Blitzer, paid to reactivate the team as an expansion franchise just a few years prior.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 10 July 2025
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Regions in the upper Mississippi embayment are probably reactivating older faults that formed when the rift basin was formed, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2025
Ebrahim Rezaei, Iran's National Security Commission spokesperson, told Iranian lawmakers that snapback sanctions would reactivate six past U.N. resolutions, including the arms embargo banning military sales to Iran as well as arms exports.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
That’s a significant jump from the roughly $2 million that the team’s previous owner, David Blitzer, paid to reactivate the team as an expansion franchise just a few years prior.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reactivate
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The first-person shooter was originally announced back in 2017 before being scrapped and restarted entirely in 2020.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some of those molecules get fed into the cell's metabolism, while others get built up into a five-carbon sugar again, restarting the cycle.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Several airports have reinvented themselves entirely.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Best Classic Safari Chair Inspired by medieval Spanish furniture, this silhouette was reinvented in 1958 by Børge Mogensen.—
Elissa Suh,
Architectural Digest,
17 Sep. 2025
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There's nothing better than a house that looks, feels, and smells refreshed.—
Stacey Leasca,
Southern Living,
17 Sep. 2025
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Please refresh this page for updates.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Topline The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly beating out Ryan Reynolds’ company for the rights.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 2019, Trump, in his first term, resurrected the combatant command at Peterson Space Force Base as a standalone entity after a 17-year dormancy.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Reactivate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactivate. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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