Example Sentences

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This “Self-Portrait” reoriented Ray’s career — beginning a decades-long quest to reinscribe the figure into sculpture without rejecting the inheritance of modern art.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

Their hope is that by physicalizing these traumatic incidents, they can reinscribe their memories and dispel their power.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 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