re-create
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
Turning sports viewing into something more tactile is also likely to emerge, with “haptic experiences”—vibrations to re-create the feel of virtual objects—bringing the stadium into the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
It was up to production designer Gemma Jackson to re-create the energetic pulse of Chicago’s Exposition Building, turning history into spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
In such a narrowed world, in order to survive, you learn to contain your rage and your despair, and you try to re-create, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
The very few pieces we weren’t able to source, they were impeccably re-created.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Not all of it could be salvaged, so Knott’s meticulously re-created the look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Carter didn’t know whether the lost trophies could be re-created.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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
But they took all of that and re-created it in their own image.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
Dressed in fun fashion including light pink and polka-dot outfits, fans posed throughout the set, re-creating scenes from the music video as “The Cure” played overhead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Hackman and Arakawa “were not interested in re-creating native pueblo architecture,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026
The hope was to settle the long-standing dispute by re-creating the graybeards’ visit to Folsom.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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