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
“How can we evolve musically if we keep trying to re-create our grandparents’ music?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
That color was proving arduous to re-create affordably, and at scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
To celebrate the release of her latest album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” Rodrigo collaborated with American Express to re-create the set of her music video for “The Cure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
He so wanted to re-create this moment, to have both his parents in the same space, happy and together.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
Nonetheless, Saddam had sustained his team of some 3,000 nuclear scientists and technicians who could have re-created Iraq’s capability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Not all of it could be salvaged, so Knott’s meticulously re-created the look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
In the sneak peek, Cyrus wears a Hannah Montana-style outfit and visits sets re-created from the original show — including the Stewart family living room and Hannah’s rotating closet — saying, “I’m already getting emotional.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Du Barry re-created this entire set inside our home, complete with the gold cylinder where my platform will eventually come to rest.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
She used water from Anat’s bottle to wet the blending sponge and began to attempt re-creating the green-gray she’d once worn onstage.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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