re-enact
Americanverb (used with object)
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to enact for a second or subsequent time.
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to repeat, particularly as a performance, something which happened previously.
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The political centerpiece of 1968 was, at least if you’re French, the événements of May, in which bourgeois students took to the streets of Paris to re-enact the revolutionary theater of 1789.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Thankfully, Barry didn't feel the need to re-enact his performance, staying safely ensconced in his seat.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2024
I found trying to get actors to recreate these scenarios and re-enact anything from scenarios I read about in my research and from witness testimony, is definitely the wrong way to go about it.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2024
As Colbie got older, she and her sister would re-enact “Mystery Box” cooking challenges, imitating what they saw on “MasterChef Junior.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2023
They celebrate first of all the inviolability of the earth, and they re-enact, each time, in stereotyped choreography, our long anxiety about the nature of life.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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