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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On stage, Lion re-enacts the struggle between man and machine, going from ChatGPT to ChatGP-Free.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
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
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
Staged on a summer day, in a remote corner of Central Park, the piece symbolically re-enacts scenes from the artist’s life.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
He had the air of one who recalls the good old days, of one who in familiar scenes re-enacts the joys of his vanished youth.
From Uneasy Money by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
