How to Use reinvestigate in a Sentence

reinvestigate

verb
  • After reinvestigating the prints, three suspects emerge to breathe new life into Reyos’s battle to clear his name.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2025
  • John has continually called for local police to reinvestigate the case and find his daughter’s killer.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In an unusual move, Connick agreed to work with Thibodeaux’s team to reinvestigate.
    — Mark Vancleave, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2015
  • After finishing his work on the book, Goldman continued to reinvestigate the case on his own for nearly a decade.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Hayes was discovered as a suspect after cold case detectives began to reinvestigate the case in March.
    — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 4 May 2021
  • Jackson and a team of legal experts reinvestigate many of the allegations against Shelton.
    — CBS News, 7 May 2022
  • In 2006, Dark set up a new project to reinvestigate the site and examine the earlier research.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • But now Henniman is having doubts, hiring Russ to reinvestigate the case now that Musa is dying of cancer.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Randles plays Elle Hardy, a senior constable assigned to reinvestigating the case.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The new bishop of Como asked for permission from Becciu, a close lieutenant of Francis’s at the time, to reinvestigate the case.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • Police reinvestigating the cold case brought him in for questioning in 2017 and charged him with murder, but the case was discontinued, and he was again freed.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Walker began holding regular demonstrations in front of the courthouse, trying to persuade the district attorney to reinvestigate the case.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Lagrange and her team have already called for researchers to reinvestigate the dynamics of the Beta Pictoris system in light of this recent discovery.
    — Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2019
  • In 2009, about four decades after her body was discovered, Will County officials opened a cold case unit and started to reinvestigate her case.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2025
  • Despite years of reinvestigating the Altidor murders, Smith was unable to uncover new evidence that could move the case forward.
    — David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
  • Appeal after appeal failed, but Syed’s break came when city prosecutors began reinvestigating his case alongside his defense attorney.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
  • After The Watchdog inquired last week, Chime reinvestigated his complaints and sent Dixson their results.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • The events have been examined and re-examined, investigated and reinvestigated.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • From electrifying true-crime documentaries that provoke enough public interest to reinvestigate relic cases to award-winning horror stories based on truth, audiences cannot get enough of true-crime.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 July 2023
  • White House lawyer Kurt Olsen, who has been tasked with reinvestigating the 2020 election, also was directed to join at least one of the meetings, according to the source.
    — Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Her father was gone, too — dead from a heart attack after years of fighting for the police to reinvestigate Debbie’s killing — and her older brother, Ricky, who was once a suspect in the murder, took his own life five years before that.
    — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Researchers reached these conclusions after reinvestigating an archaeological site in Anyama, a city in Ivory Coast.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Police received new information over the weekend that caused the department to reinvestigate the circumstances of Friday’s incident, Messmer said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • That evidence first came to light when the Nashville district attorney’s office, through its conviction-review unit, began reinvestigating the case in 2023.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2024
  • All three men were exonerated after conviction review units in local prosecutors' offices reinvestigated their cases.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In recent years, dedicated units — called conviction integrity units — within a prosecutor’s office that reinvestigate old cases have appeared nationwide.
    — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • But in a paper published in 2024, scientists reinvestigated Rosetta’s analysis of comet 67P — and found that space may have tampered with the data.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • Duran’s lawyers at California Innocence Advocates reinvestigated the case for seven years.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • NCRAs and creditors typically have up to 30 days upon receipt of a dispute letter to investigate or reinvestigate a consumer’s disputes.
    — Adam Singer, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Democratic President Joe Biden has directed the federal government to reinvestigate the disease’s origins.
    — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2021

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