as in to reunite
to put, bring, or come together again
They reconnected with an old friend over the weekend. She reassembled the unit and reconnected the cables.
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Recent Examples of reconnect
Make sure the tires reconnect with the road - During the skid, wait until the tires reconnect with the road and then gently straighten the wheels to regain control.
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Freeman, who started both the Victoria Station and California Café restaurant chains and owns the Buena Vista in San Francisco, sought to reconnect to the building’s past.
—Jeff Burkhart, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
BackCountry Heroes, which was founded on the belief that nature has the power to heal, uses hunting, camping and other outdoor activities to help veterans and first responders reconnect with themselves, their community and their families.
—Stephanie Ogilvie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Rathbun and the other officers tried to reconnect the barricades but couldn’t, and the crowd surged forward.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
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Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Freeman, who started both the Victoria Station and California Café restaurant chains and owns the Buena Vista in San Francisco, sought to reconnect to the building’s past.
—Jeff Burkhart, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
BackCountry Heroes, which was founded on the belief that nature has the power to heal, uses hunting, camping and other outdoor activities to help veterans and first responders reconnect with themselves, their community and their families.
—Stephanie Ogilvie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Rathbun and the other officers tried to reconnect the barricades but couldn’t, and the crowd surged forward.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reconnect
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Watching the song’s polarizing music video, which uses digital trickery to reunite the surviving Beatles with their late mates, projected behind McCartney and his band on a massive screen is trippy, and hard for the brain to comprehend.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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That’s right, Krakow and Hynes reunite on screen for the first time in 4 years in Christmas Above the Clouds, which is a modern retelling of one of the most beloved holiday stories of all time, A Christmas Carol.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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One of those techniques involves an empty chair placed in front of a client, encouraging them to imagine and speak to someone connected to unresolved emotions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Fort Worth police said the three cases are not connected.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Reconnect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reconnect. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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