Thesaurus results for REENACTS

reenacts

verb

present tense third-person singular of reenact

as in performs

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 reenacts During Muharram a community group will often stage a passion play (taʿziyyah) that reenacts the events of Ḥusayn’s martyrdom. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026 Ordained to the Catholic priesthood in June, Jimenez was watching as parishioners acted out the Nativity scene during a posada, a Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem in search of shelter. — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2025 This 9-night event reenacts the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem with songs, costumes and music. — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 30 Nov. 2025 In her letter, Austen also nearly reenacts in these lines the scene in which Elizabeth is insulted at the ball. — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025 One hundred twenty-five years later, on the same quay in Geneva, a theater troupe reenacts the event every Sunday. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025

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The idea is less about decorative spectacle than about how a home performs after someone moves in.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Run small validation campaigns across separate audiences before increasing budget, compare results with your own sales data and investigate any source that performs unusually well without a clear reason.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of performs

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But for anyone disturbed by the way To Catch a Predator executes its faux-law enforcement busts, the movie risks becoming viscerally unpleasant.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
When disruption arrives, the team executes a plan rather than reacting with uncertainty.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of executes

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The government continues to fiercely prosecutes its critics, barring Cubans who antagonize the communist regime from the pool of potential investors.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
Allison Lyman, whose 23-year-old son Connor Lopez was killed in April 2025 when a driver turned her SUV left in front of his motorcycle on Sheldon Road in Elk Grove, is campaigning to change how California prosecutes fatal crashes.

— Ruyuan Li. Story produced with AI assistance, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of prosecutes

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The whole cast commits to the bit, having undoubtedly shown up to play— still, there is something about Pine’s overdone mannerisms that land with the most uproarious laughter.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2026
Only after the engineer commits to a diagnosis does the model come back on, to propose the fix, generate alternatives, and sweep the code base for similar bugs.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of commits

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As Lima negotiates the removal of those duties, China continues to outpace the United States in trade with Peru.

— Marco Aquino, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Trigild regularly negotiates the sale of properties, including the Broomfield Hyatt, Industry Denver and the Greenwood Village office.

— Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiates

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Just as Grossman had to reconstruct the camp at Treblinka after attempts to erase it, so Littell methodically — at times forensically, through interviews with pathologists, survivors and grave diggers — recreates the killings in Bucha.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Dana Point’s most popular event, however, is the Pageant of the Masters, held from July through September, which recreates famous works of arts using live actors.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of recreates

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The Netflix series depicts many aspects in the life of the Earle family, including the sisters' breast cancer generic testing results and Alix's feud with fellow podcaster Alex Cooper.

— Moises Mendez II, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
The video depicts Galileo’s book The Starry Messenger being sent into space and falling back to earth, landing in the hands of Esparza in Times Square.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026

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