reopened

verb

past tense of reopen
as in resumed
to begin again or return to after an interruption court will reopen after a brief recess

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Recent Examples of reopened No thanks, Lane Benson originally intended to play for Mississippi, but reopened his recruitment when Lane Kiffin was hired in 2019 to coach the Rebels. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2026 Caruso, who lost the 2022 mayoral race to Bass, reopened the shopping center last month after extensive renovations following the fire. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The runway that just reopened will be just for departures taking off to the east. — Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026 In 2010, a state anthropologist reopened the case and submitted the victim’s teeth for DNA testing. — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 Motorists from Folsom and El Dorado Hills were forced to detour onto Folsom Boulevard or take Greenback Lane or other streets through Fair Oaks, Orangevale and Citrus Heights until lanes reopened. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026 By Tuesday, the monument had reopened, and a representative of the Hindu religious organization BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, which has close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist party, issued an apology. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 Sep. 2026 The Excelsior just reopened this past May after a major renovation, including a redesign of its nearly 200 rooms and suites and a new terrace restaurant called Amù Venice. — Beth Landman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 Those numbers were likely to be updated on ‌Wednesday as China fully reopened the only road leading to the Gyirong border crossing into Nepal, allowing heavy machinery to reach the core disaster zone for the first time. — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reopened
  1. resumed
  2. restarted
  3. continued
Verb
  • Elsewhere, Austrian international Michael Svoboda, who arrived from Italian side Venezia in the other part of the summer refit in central defence, has just resumed training following a minor knee issue.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Lavender Heights had resumed its rhythm Sunday after a member of the LGBTQ community reported suffering a verbal and physical attack the previous weekend in the neighborhood.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of resumed
Verb
  • Once the race restarted, Gasly tumbled down the order while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen rose to fight Russell for first, with the pair swiftly joined by Antonelli.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Companies that stopped issuing forecasts during the pandemic and never restarted weren’t a random sample.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of restarted
Verb
  • Much of it captures a version of Karrahbooo who was watching her career sit still while the conversation around her continued without her.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But armed conflicts between citizens of Missouri and the Kansas territory had started years earlier and continued into the Civil War.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of continued

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“Reopened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reopened. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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