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The government report also found that at least 9 percent of all the companies that had their operating certificates rescinded for safety reasons had reincarnated by using different names.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2011

Possibly if Yva's theory, as I understood it, were correct, he had reincarnated as Attila, or Tamerlane, or Napoleon, or even as Chaka the terrible Zulu king.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

Many simple villagers believed that an evil spirit, cursed by the gods, had reincarnated as a tiger which took various demoniac forms at night, but remained a striped animal during the day.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

I wondered if he had reincarnated the symbol as part of a spiritual lesson, or if it was just icing on the cake.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot