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Recent Examples of reactivate
But her fanbase recently reactivated to revive Heartstrings online as a show of support.
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Some missions have been known to spend years hovering between life and death before reactivating.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
This is not resistance 1.0, but we are reactivated and reawakened.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
The long-dormant Lost Highway imprint had also been reactivated just last month under Mabe’s direction, with a Ringo Starr country album produced by T Bone Burnett as the first album under that umbrella.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
Some missions have been known to spend years hovering between life and death before reactivating.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
This is not resistance 1.0, but we are reactivated and reawakened.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
The long-dormant Lost Highway imprint had also been reactivated just last month under Mabe’s direction, with a Ringo Starr country album produced by T Bone Burnett as the first album under that umbrella.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reactivate
Verb
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In stage two, they’re faced with visions of the past, and in stage three (the final stage), they’re reincarnated as something new, which restarts the six phases of life and death.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2025
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Gold mining restarted at the site in the early 1900s and continued on and off ever since.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Well-known for her use of out-of-the-ordinary materials over the years, like scarab wings and ancient mammoth ivory, van der Velden rose to the challenge of reinventing that most classic of stone in her own, original way.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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This season–and for the first time since its debut in 1969–the hero handbag is reinvented in a reversible icy blue and pretty pale pink–two of spring’s hautest hues to take note of now, and then add to your already overflowing Rabanne shopping cart later.—
Laura Jackson,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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Over the past couple of years, more brands have been jumping into the fiber game to meet this growing consumer need and refresh the category.—
Emily Burns,
WWD,
7 Mar. 2025
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Even something as simple as a new throw pillow or lightweight blanket can make all the difference when refreshing your home, and Wayfair has a large selection of spring-ready pieces that are currently on sale for less than $50.—
Rachel Trujillo,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Her image is resurrected in the form of a life-size Virgen de Guadalupe as mourners lead a procession.—
Pamela Avila,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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In an early scene, he is set upon by a shrieking, skittering swarm of creepers—imagine giant, whitish pill bugs with huge mandibles—and expects to be devoured (and resurrected) within seconds.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Reactivate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactivate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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