as in remembering
to experience (something) again in your imagination
an athlete trying to relive his glory days He would sometimes relive the battle in his dreams.
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Recent Examples of reliving
Perhaps her account – factchecked and corroborated – would stop her from reliving the memories.
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Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Spencer said that reliving that trauma deeply affected him and exclusively spoke to PEOPLE about his wife's support during the five-year writing process.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Eric Decker will be back in Minneapolis on Saturday night for his Minnesota Golden Gophers' homecoming game, reliving the glory days.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
There’s no therapy like clawing back through both your triumphant and dismal decades and reliving them stanza by stanza, line by line, iamb by iamb.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Today’s products aren’t about reliving the tried-and-true look, and are, instead, more focused on modernizing it.
—Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
This isn’t about reliving the past, but about re-writing it through truth.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 21 Sep. 2025
Her words throw Max into a reverie, reliving his past in light of his parents’ lies.
—Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Spencer said that reliving that trauma deeply affected him and exclusively spoke to PEOPLE about his wife's support during the five-year writing process.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Eric Decker will be back in Minneapolis on Saturday night for his Minnesota Golden Gophers' homecoming game, reliving the glory days.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
There’s no therapy like clawing back through both your triumphant and dismal decades and reliving them stanza by stanza, line by line, iamb by iamb.
—Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Today’s products aren’t about reliving the tried-and-true look, and are, instead, more focused on modernizing it.
—Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
This isn’t about reliving the past, but about re-writing it through truth.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 21 Sep. 2025
Her words throw Max into a reverie, reliving his past in light of his parents’ lies.
—Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliving
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Debbie Harry is remembering her late bandmate Clem Burke.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The next four weeks are about remembering what brings you back to life and refusing to settle for anything less.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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But as Sora 2 users began recreating celebrities without consent, OpenAI was forced to act.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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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
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“Reliving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliving. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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