Thesaurus results for REENACTING

reenacting

verb

Definition of reenacting next

present participle of reenact

as in performing

to act out a past event; to enact again The group reenacted a famous American Civil War battle.

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Recent Examples of reenacting Every year on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar and the same day as the Battle of Karbala, Shiite Muslims inside and outside of Iran observe Ashura and commemorate the slaying of Hussain by reenacting his death and performing self-flagellation, among other rituals. —

Eric Lob, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026 Metcalf and Pullman are both wonderful in their shuffling ordinariness, reenacting long-obsolete parental dynamics with a kind of rueful, hopeful denial. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026 This year’s ceremony, by contrast, opened with a pair of dancers in angel wings reenacting the neoclassical sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, which was created about 100 years before the invention of the lightbulb. —

Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026 One component of the agreement barred the federal government, for at least eight years, from reenacting immigration policies that systematically separate children and parents. —

Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026 What kind of faith is kept alive by reenacting a civil war? —

Ahmed Naji, The Dial, 18 Nov. 2025 TikTok users are sharing their childhood and teenage memories on the platform with #early2000snostalgia — from skits reenacting their high school experiences to throwback videos on popular Y2K items. —

Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025 Each of its first two seasons opens with multiple—some might say too many—episodes reenacting the central crimes with a level of self-aware salaciousness that makes the typical TV-MA docudrama look like children’s programming. —

Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025 The post began with a video of the former costars reenacting a famous scene from the hit series. —

Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025

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Hail Mary is also performing ahead of expectations overseas, where sci-fi is a notoriously tough genre to sell in certain European countries, as well as key regions in Latin America and Asia.

— Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2026
The father handed the unresponsive child to the officer, who began performing the Heimlich maneuver, according to DHS.

— Mike Snider, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026