re-enact
verb (used with object)
to enact for a second or subsequent time.
re-enacts
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present tense formof re-enact (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Pope Francis had performed this ceremony, which re-enacts Jesus's gesture toward his apostles, among marginalised people, whether prisoners, migrants or the homeless.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
In a video recording of a pre-trial hearing, which has never been broadcast before, the most junior member of the squad, Lance Corporal Humberto Mendoza is questioned and re-enacts events at Safa's house.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
Using four of his puppets, she re-enacts some of his best known works, but she has not found a way to spark them with life.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
To watch as Wile E. Coyote chases the Roadrunner through “Mad Max: Fury Road,” or as Granny re-enacts bullet-time martial arts moves from “The Matrix,” is to discover the answer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
In 1903 came the intelligent Elkins Bill against discrimination, which merely re-enacts the common law, and up to within two or three years has proved the only really effective measure of controlling the rates themselves.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
