as in to rekindle
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Recent Examples of reignite
Now 28, he’s tasked with helping Frost reignite an offense that stalled during their 5-7 return to Orlando.
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Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
What hangs in the balance is a triangle of interlocked possibilities—on one side, Mathias’s possible relationships with Claude and Simon, and on the other his artistic connection to Elena, who hopes to keep him in Lyon and reignite his concert career.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Which does reignite the conversation of the NBA’s regular season.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
The situation is also an opportunity for NASA to resume the kind of risk-taking that has been lacking to shake the agency out of a post-space-shuttle lethargy and to reignite passions for reaching a stretch goal under deadline pressure.
—Thomas Black, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
What hangs in the balance is a triangle of interlocked possibilities—on one side, Mathias’s possible relationships with Claude and Simon, and on the other his artistic connection to Elena, who hopes to keep him in Lyon and reignite his concert career.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
Which does reignite the conversation of the NBA’s regular season.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
The situation is also an opportunity for NASA to resume the kind of risk-taking that has been lacking to shake the agency out of a post-space-shuttle lethargy and to reignite passions for reaching a stretch goal under deadline pressure.
—Thomas Black, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reignite
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Old friends might reappear to rekindle relationships.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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Also written by Pella, Peaking follows a couple’s attempts to rekindle the spark of their relationship by searching for a threesome at a remote music festival.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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SpaceX also intends for the upper stage to relight one of its six Raptor engines while in space, a key demonstration of technology needed for a deorbit burn when the spacecraft someday returns to Earth from space.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
17 May 2026
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The Bureau of Engineering selected Tetra Tech, a global engineering firm, to fortify and relight the stretch of road that connects downtown Los Angeles to Boyle Heights, which has essentially gone dark due to the amount of copper theft plaguing the area.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Reignite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reignite. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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