re-create
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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The group, swaying in unison, have come together to re-create the music video for Kate Bush's 1978 song Wuthering Heights, inspired by Emily Brontë's novel.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
But in true Hollywood fashion, studios are already scouring the depths of the internet, in search of untapped talent and viral content that could re-create a similar success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Maybe you can’t re-create the basketball court outside, but what could you do? Could you have games or arts or trivia or some interactive something that at least gets kids a real break?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
That color was proving arduous to re-create affordably, and at scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
When he’s not gardening, Grandpa likes to re-create his favorite paintings from the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
The re-created history, which is where many historical documentaries fail, looks good, and the scenes the writers conjure up are well done, if verging sometimes on melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The production design team re-created the famous D-day map from the Allied headquarters in Southwark House.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Principal photography commenced later that year in Cannes, Nice and the Côte d’Azur, and re-created the festival atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Their plight is re-created in “The Perfect Storm,” with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Unforeseen events could eventually leave them dependent on public assistance, re-creating the kind of poverty that Social Security was designed to prevent after the Great Depression.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Netflix is so psyched about generative software that it’s spent the year acquiring an A.I. production studio, launching a different studio for A.I.-animated shorts, and re-creating Gene Wilder’s voice for a Willy Wonka–themed game show.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Still, they came close to re-creating the magic of last year’s fake toy commercial with a fake perfume commercial — and a rather trippy one at that.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
But it definitely feels right, re-creating with precision the restaurants of the time, the fashion, the music, and the general vibe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Then the engineers set up an experiment re-creating the circumstances of the accident, flying a test plane into the trailing wake of a larger plane.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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