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  • verb Present participle of re-enact.

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Examples

  • To western eyes, watching revolutions is re-enacting our own democratic origins.

    Simon Jenkins: Leave Egypt Alone Simon Jenkins 2011

  • And I did the only quiet thing I could think of, which was to repeat my great uncle's dance of the lifelong sorrow, re-enacting his odd polka with the series of steps I had seen him do countless times, escalating them as he did, and then, in the very quietest way possible, I did them several more times on the floor, raising and dropping my arms as he did, too.

    The Hiders Heather Fowler 2012

  • Planning on re-enacting your favorite Conan/Red Sonja battle scenes out behind the barn?

    Archive 2009-09-01 Cromsblood 2009

  • So consciousness, Mr. Humphrey believes, comes from our way of mentally re-enacting what happens at our body's surface.

    The Magical Mystery Show of Consciousness Matt Ridley 2011

  • Planning on re-enacting your favorite Conan/Red Sonja battle scenes out behind the barn?

    Accessorize! Cromsblood 2009

  • For some, like 56-year-old Keith Murray, from Maryland, re-enacting is above all a social gathering.

    US Civil War Comes Alive 150 Years After First Battle 2011

  • Leandro laughs at the students chanting about the workers and opines that though some talk about ‘re-enacting’ political events, we are not Chileans, and we are not in Chile thirty-five years ago, as if our worlds are incommensurable.

    Slogan slogan slogan, shout shout shout « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Mr. Mehrotra's cunning deployment of enjambment—the breaking of a phrase or sentence across a poetic line—propels us from one line to the next, re-enacting, in the four-line opening sentence, the way the mind pieces together the meaning of the world from the messages of the senses, before knocking it out with the clean, flat declaration of the line that follows.

    When Mysticism Came Down to Earth Chandrahas Choudhury 2011

  • Leandro laughs at the students chanting about the workers and opines that though some talk about ‘re-enacting’ political events, we are not Chileans, and we are not in Chile thirty-five years ago, as if our worlds are incommensurable.

    May « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Why dont you pack up and take all your libertarian buddies to an island somewhere and let us televise you re-enacting the Lord of the Flies

    Think Progress » Woman Who Was Denied Insurance Due To Pre-Existing Condition Looking To Get Married For Health Care 2010

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