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
“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
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
Matt discovered he could re-create the songs Celia sang to him, using one finger.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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
Angelenos enjoyed a special unannounced guest, Aimee Mann, who re-created her ethereal backup vocals on 1987’s “Time Stand Still,” Rush’s finest balance of song craft and chops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
A 2022 sale of her estate re-created elements of her Upper East Side apartment in New York’s Stair Galleries, where the auction was taking place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
It was one of the rooms that had been re-created on the soundstage, and the team was impressed by how well the set designers had duplicated it.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
Across the landing, the Yellow Room also boasts expensive furnishings, especially the bed, which is covered in bright yellow damask, re-creating a bed Washington acquired in 1758.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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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