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as in transforming
to make significant changes or improvements to (something)
We are striving to reinvent our business model.
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as in reviving
to bring (something) into use again in a new way
Later in her career, she reinvented herself as a singer/songwriter.
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Recent Examples of reinventing
The 39-year-old songwriter, who’s also a musician and producer, has collaborated with some of the top artists in music, crossing and reinventing genres with ease.
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Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2026
Despite its long history, the property managed by Maybourne is constantly reinventing itself.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2026
Three months after resigning, Anne’s nonprofit TTAM Research Institute purchased 23andMe’s assets for $305 million in July 2025, and the company is reinventing itself as a nonprofit medical research organization rather than a genetic testing kit company.
—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
At its core, the ST3 is a three-in-one tool that blends drilling, tapping (thread cutting) and screwdriving – which may not be reinventing the wheel, but the engineers say the devil is in the detail.
—New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2026
Now Ford is reinventing the assembly line.
—Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
The second-year Minnesota Mallards junior team of the North American Hockey League is reinventing itself yet again.
—Tris Wykes, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
The author, known for sinister tales like The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation, has built a reputation for reinventing classic horror tropes by weaving in Native American folklore and stories passed down from his grandmother, an elder of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana.
—Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
The second narrative, the one that came later—with science fiction reinventing the robot as gleaming, futuristic, aspirational—built a future that, as imagined by European and American science fiction writers, was white.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2026
Despite its long history, the property managed by Maybourne is constantly reinventing itself.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2026
Three months after resigning, Anne’s nonprofit TTAM Research Institute purchased 23andMe’s assets for $305 million in July 2025, and the company is reinventing itself as a nonprofit medical research organization rather than a genetic testing kit company.
—Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
At its core, the ST3 is a three-in-one tool that blends drilling, tapping (thread cutting) and screwdriving – which may not be reinventing the wheel, but the engineers say the devil is in the detail.
—New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2026
Now Ford is reinventing the assembly line.
—Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
The second-year Minnesota Mallards junior team of the North American Hockey League is reinventing itself yet again.
—Tris Wykes, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
The author, known for sinister tales like The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation, has built a reputation for reinventing classic horror tropes by weaving in Native American folklore and stories passed down from his grandmother, an elder of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana.
—Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
The second narrative, the one that came later—with science fiction reinventing the robot as gleaming, futuristic, aspirational—built a future that, as imagined by European and American science fiction writers, was white.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reinventing
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Second, the same precision-medicine approaches that are now transforming oncology must be applied to mental illness, identifying biomarkers early enough to alter disease trajectory.—
Eric J. Nestler,
STAT,
28 Apr. 2026
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News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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But with a sequel to dissect and an audience primed for this kind of analysis, the larger conversation around villainy is worth reviving.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
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But Anne Hathaway reviving an actual movie costume from 2006?—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2026
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In one case, while redesigning a ribosomal protein called RpsJ, the AI remodeled an alpha helix—a structural element bridging different parts of the ribosome—and introduced eight new nearby mutations to compensate for the substitution of just two isoleucines.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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Beyond immediate risks, broader questions remain about how far humans should go in redesigning life and what unintended consequences such changes could have for ecosystems.—
André O. Hudson,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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And in parallel, the Russian government has been resurrecting the ghosts of the Soviet past.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2026
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Today’s conservatives are resurrecting the positions that Reynolds and his allies in the 1980s could not muscle past the internal GOP opposition in Congress and the Cabinet.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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That second explanation, known as dark matter, was initially favored because the addition of that one ingredient could explain all of the observed physical phenomena on a variety of scales, while modifying gravity required different modifications to align with different scales.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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Redevelopment means modifying the former Sears building to align with Dick’s House of Sports in-store features.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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One Iranian source told CNN that Tehran could see talks restarting if the US lifts its blockade of Iranian ports and Iran fully reopens the Strait of Hormuz.—
Kevin Liptak,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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At this point, restarting the engine would be extremely difficult.—
James Glanz,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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While California desperately needs comprehensive tax relief, the qualification of the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13 for the November ballot is an important first step in reclaiming California for the state’s beleaguered taxpayers.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
26 Apr. 2026
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The singer appeared on BBC's Woman's Hour on Thursday, April 23, and talked about reclaiming her body and flaunting what she's got, even at 52.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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The president is remaking courts to clear a backlog of asylum cases.—
Maria Sacchetti,
Washington Post,
27 Apr. 2026
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But remaking Florida’s congressional map is a risky move for state Republicans, who face stringent redistricting rules and the hazard of turning safe GOP seats into competitive ones.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Reinventing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reinventing. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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