as in to perform
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 reenact
The post began with a video of the former costars reenacting a famous scene from the hit series.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Doja Cat stepped out midway through the monologue with Questlove to reenact a scene from The Real Housewives of Miami.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
One player reenacted how Deon caught the ball cleanly.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Even internet games are reenacting the shooting and holding virtual parties celebrating Kirk’s death.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Doja Cat stepped out midway through the monologue with Questlove to reenact a scene from The Real Housewives of Miami.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
One player reenacted how Deon caught the ball cleanly.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Even internet games are reenacting the shooting and holding virtual parties celebrating Kirk’s death.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Directed by British filmmaker and frequent collaborator Nick Wickham (Madonna, Shakira) the film will chronicle the album’s release date unveiling at the intimate Troxy nightclub in London, where the goth rock legends performed the entire record for the first and only time to date.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025
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When the immune system ages, immune cells become less able to perform crucial functions like fighting infection, destroying cancer cells and healing wounds, according to Rhodes, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Mimio Health in San Francisco.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Mamdani will face high expectations and even higher barriers to executing an agenda that includes enormous bureaucratic, political, and logistic hurdles.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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To the credit of general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers identified a piece and executed a deal ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline despite limiting factors.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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So, for me, that was the creation of the Anti-American Speech Committee, which is a government panel essentially designed to prosecute artists for holding views or creating work that resists basically the fascist state that has overtaken the American government.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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He was almost prosecuted for counterfeiting.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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Another Halloween fanatic, Janelle Monáe fully committed to the bit by dressing as the Cat in the Hat for her Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel walk.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Glasner prefers his players to know their role perfectly, to complement each other and to commit to the game plan largely without deviation.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Hunter has set himself a very fine amount of emotional and physical space within which to work, and there’s pleasure in watching Metcalf and Stock negotiate the tiptoeing way Sarah and Ethan grow closer.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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The houses, often apartments inside the city’s tall residential buildings, strike so much fear among residents that anyone willing to live there can negotiate hefty discounts in one of the world’s most expensive property markets.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Reenact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reenact. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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