as in to revive
to bring back to life, practice, or activity
the new multiplex has begun to reanimate the shabby neighborhood
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Recent Examples of reanimate
Everything in popular culture feels recycled or reanimated or patched together out of preexisting elements.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2025
The committee cited a specific incident at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, N.J. where a patient reanimated after being pronounced dead in order to start organ harvesting.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 19 Nov. 2025
Fanatics have been known to reanimate causes of all stripes.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Bruni Tedeschi captures her in that vortex — her pulmonary illness confining her to bed one minute and her artistic drives reanimating her with defiant spirit the next.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2025
The committee cited a specific incident at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, N.J. where a patient reanimated after being pronounced dead in order to start organ harvesting.
—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 19 Nov. 2025
Fanatics have been known to reanimate causes of all stripes.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Bruni Tedeschi captures her in that vortex — her pulmonary illness confining her to bed one minute and her artistic drives reanimating her with defiant spirit the next.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reanimate
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Barnes & Noble will open four new bookstores in the Chicago area by summertime, including a flagship location downtown on State Street, part of a national move to revive its brick-and-mortar retail presence.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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An effort to set that up stalled in the California legislature last year, but there's a growing pressure to revive something like it.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Can some late-career playoff magic resurrect that value?—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Afterward, the situation in Iran only got worse, and now Tehran seeks to stanch the bleeding by resurrecting him again.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2026
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Ebrahimi’s death has also renewed attention on the case of another Iranian boxer, Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, who is on death row.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In December 2023, all four members—Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé—renewed their group contract with YG Entertainment.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Reanimate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reanimate. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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