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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To create anew.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To create or form anew.

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  • verb To create again.
  • verb To create a likeness or copy of.

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  • verb form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
  • verb make a replica of
  • verb create anew

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Examples

  • With little access to American-made products, the stiliagi were forced to re-create them on their own.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • These “intentional communities” were typically established in remote locations so as to re-create agrarian, preindustrial society.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • How did you re-create the full experience of those 18 days?

    The Egyptian Revolution Will be Televised Anna Louie Sussman 2012

  • Many are looking for comfort in the ordinary, as the community struggles to re-create a semblance of normalcy.

    A Day to Bid Farewell to Tsunami Dead Gordon Fairclough 2011

  • Lions coach and former Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz looks to re-create the disruptive line he coached from 2001 to 2008 starring Vanden Bosch and Albert Haynesworth.

    Top picks Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy full of excitement 2010

  • For example, Mike and I loved to re-create dance steps that we watched from the golden age of Hollywood—moves perfected by Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

    True You Janet Jackson 2011

  • I would re-create that book, as a pie, and take my own first step into tradition.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Sarah 2009

  • If you were to try to re-create that gun today it would cost at least three times what Safari Outfitters wanted for it.

    The Gun Builder As Artist 2009

  • I would re-create that book, as a pie, and take my own first step into tradition.

    I Call it "Rustic" Sarah 2009

  • If you were to try to re-create that gun today it would cost at least three times what Safari Outfitters wanted for it.

    The Gun Builder As Artist 2009

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  • "One thing we've always tried to avoid in The White Stripes is all those words that I can't stand that start with 'R,' such as retro, and relic, and reissue, and re-create, all that stuff," White says. "All I know is I just want my stuff to sound as soulful as I can." - Jack White on NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17332103

    December 19, 2007