regenerating

present participle of regenerate
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Recent Examples of regenerating Instead of adding external chemicals or excavating polluted layers, the soil itself becomes a dynamic system capable of regenerating its quality over time. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025 The novelistic equivalent would be a book automatically regenerating itself every time a new reader picked it up. Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025 The liver is the only human organ capable of regenerating itself after injury. Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025 When the vehicle is slowing down and the motors are regenerating kinetic energy into electrical energy, the PEM also converts that AC flow back to DC to charge the battery. Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 This ensures the plant or mushroom population can keep regenerating, wildlife still has food and habitat, and other foragers have their share too. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025 This occurs as the retinal rods increase their sensitivity by regenerating rhodopsin, a light-sensitive pigment, over a period of time. Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The sender used an app that kept regenerating new phone numbers, so Lauryn and McKenny were unable to block them. Jordana Comiter, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025 There are as many as 9000 genes that seem to be involved in regenerating an amputated eye in the snails, reducing down to 1,175 genes by the 28th day of the process, so complete maturation of the new eyes might take longer. ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regenerating
Verb
  • While some studies are skeptical of puzzle games improving or restoring cognitive functions, the National Library of Medicine believes brain and puzzle games do have benefits.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • What started as a weekend hobby quickly grew into a full-fledged business, and Molski, who has since retired from healthcare sales, couldn't be happier to spend his weekends hunting and restoring vintage pieces.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Each garment at 110 Mercer Street continues the brand’s commitment to handcraftsmanship, reviving historical techniques such as lace-making, metal threadwork and glass bead embroidery.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Is sporting Halloween fashion really that much worse than reviving 1980s deadstock denim?
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Community members at the time cried and mourned as their hopes of rehabilitating and reopening the historic structure were reduced to ashes.
    Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Blackwell and his team got to work rehabilitating the declining species native to Mexico.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But as Sora 2 users began recreating celebrities without consent, OpenAI was forced to act.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And the public gets some wild movies and TV shows that would otherwise never get made, doing crazy-stupid stuff like recreating Napoleonic-era sea battles off the coast of the Galapagos.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Auerbach's book is genuinely horrifying, resurrecting that visceral terror of 'stranger-danger' most of us learned as kids.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Forty years ago, the Nintendo Entertainment System hit North American shores, singlehandedly resurrecting the video-game market after its infamous post-Atari crash in 1983.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Although the murderers are often characters with redeeming qualities, Nolan Hurst (David Cross) is more sympathetic than most, and his killing of toy store manager/part-time extortionist Patrick Palmer (Drew Seltzer) is an unpremeditated act of desperation, not the settling of a score.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Other gamers are fuming that Microsoft has also changed its policies to block users from redeeming Reward points to pay for Xbox Game Pass subscriptions.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With up to 70 percent off clothing, shoes, and luggage, this Nordstrom sale is perfect for refreshing my wardrobe and gear before my next autumnal getaway.
    Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Running multiple browser tabs or manually refreshing the Magic Key sales page could boot you from the virtual waiting room.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Security Council members voted 15-0 on a draft resolution renewing the sanctions scheme.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The new David Ellison owned Paramount Pictures is continuing business with genre producer Walter Hamada, renewing him and his 18Hz Productions with an exclusive, multi-year production deal.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Regenerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regenerating. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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