reactivated

verb

past tense of reactivate
as in restarted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reactivated
  1. restarted
  2. reinvented
  3. resurrected
  4. refreshed
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  • Iceland is headed toward rejecting a referendum that would have restarted negotiations to join the European Union more than a decade after previous talks died, the national broadcaster reported Sunday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In May, Iran had already restarted some of its drone production during a six-week ceasefire, rapidly rebuilding military capabilities degraded by US-Israeli strikes, according to two sources familiar with US intelligence assessments.
    — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of restarted
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  • Ezequiel ‘Wicked’ Romo reinvented Blythe Street as an enforcement arm for the Mexican Mafia, directing business and ordering murders from his prison cell.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Opposition movements, meanwhile, have consistently reinvented themselves.
    — Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of reinvented
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  • As the franchise moldered this past decade, other executives wondered if it could be resurrected.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • With the blessing of their estates, dead actors like John Wayne are having their voices resurrected by AI.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of resurrected
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  • As revealed in a press release earlier this week, the Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been refreshed with the new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple Silicon chipsets.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • But their work is less likely to become clichéd, because any stale fixations will always be rinsed and refreshed by the real.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of refreshed
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“Reactivated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactivated. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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