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Definition of "re-enacting" [re-enacting]

  • Present participle of re-enact. (verb)

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