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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recreate.

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Examples

  • Wall spends months creating these diorama-like settings, hires professionals to do makeup, recreates in other words, an entire world.

    The unreality of war, part two Lemon Hound 2009

  • I read plenty of adultish books to get my various degrees and gave away an armload of "how to write" books when I realized they can't help you if you can't... but if I read YA/children's books for my recreational reading, who is to say what "recreates" me?

    The WritingYA Weblog: ...and furthermore...furthermore...and on top of that... tanita davis 2008

  • I read plenty of adultish books to get my various degrees and gave away an armload of "how to write" books when I realized they can't help you if you can't... but if I read YA/children's books for my recreational reading, who is to say what "recreates" me?

    Archive 2008-03-01 tanita davis 2008

  • Darwin’s Dilemma recreates the prehistoric world of the Cambrian era with state-of-the-art computer animation, and the film features interviews with Discovery Institute scientists as well as leading evolutionary paleontologists such as Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University and James Valentine of the University of California at Berkeley.

    The Disco 'Tute Dance continues - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • You know the drill by now, DSO takes the setlist from a Grateful Dead show and "recreates" the show live.

    RVABlogs 2009

  • All Andrew had to do is cut and paste the picture with a link / attribution, but he "recreates".

    unknown title 2008

  • Moore clearly knows how to resurrect history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a historian's love for detail and a storyteller's passion for a good yarn.

    Wedlock: Summary and book reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore. 2009

  • Designer Hildegard Bechtler's opening set quotes an 1818 painting of Caspar David Friedrich; and the vigorous tenor, Peter Hoare, costumed by Katrina Lindsay in Faust's frock coat but with a shock of red hair, recreates the solitary figure from the German Romantic artist's painting, "The Wayfarer Above a Sea of Fog."

    Gilliam's Faustian Pact Paul Levy 2011

  • Homesick Texan - a New Yorker recreates the much-missed cuisine of her Southern childhood

    Baking Bites » Print » Baking Bites in the Best 50 Food Blogs in the World 2009

  • "Chen's inventive and sprawling family saga eloquently recreates a time of enormous upheaval."

    Brothers by Da Chen: Book summary 2010

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