reinstate
verb (used with object)
to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state.
reinstates
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present tense formof reinstate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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DBS reinstates coverage with a buy rating and HK$6.50 target price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Even if the president reinstates most levies, the Treasury might have to refund what it has already collected.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
That language clearly reinstates any federal employee who was either told they’d be laid off during the shutdown or actually laid off.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
The Heisman Trust reinstates the trophy to Reggie Bush and USC, three years after the era of forbidding college athletes from receiving compensation ended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
For the reinstatement of this act ipso facto reinstates the epistemological predicament to get rid of which it was first banished from logic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
