Example Sentences

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“At the same time, it can significantly reinscribe and reinforce those gender binaries.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2021

But rather than reinscribe them onto the art they once owned, “Afterlives” instead offers 10 images of … well, some other persecuted Jews, as photographed by August Sander, the great portraitist of interwar Germany.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

They wanted to reinscribe the struggles and feats of those early years at Dance Theater of Harlem into a cultural narrative that seems so often to cast Black excellence aside.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

Brennan-Jobs’s attempt to take control of some modest part of the Steve Jobs myth has almost inevitably unfolded in ways that reinscribe his power, both over his family and a reverent public.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

But on another level we could say that digital texts don’t so much cancel the book’s closedness as reinscribe it within themselves.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2012