reopening

verb

present participle of reopen
as in resuming
to begin again or return to after an interruption court will reopen after a brief recess

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Recent Examples of reopening Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and studio, is reopening following a death at the site on Friday, October 16. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2026 The order permitted either side to request reopening if negotiations failed. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 The property has temporarily closed without a date for reopening in place yet. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The Masts dispute the family's kinship and argue that reopening the adoption now would be a significant disruption for the girl, who is now 7 and has been living with their family for years. — Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026 Without that funding, our worst-case scenario is closing very early in the morning and reopening in the evening, forcing those guests to find somewhere else to spend the day. — Chris Ham, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 The hotel previously shut down in 2005 for a renovation that converted many of its original guest rooms into private residences before reopening in 2008. — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 Michigan officials, not wanting to lose nuclear jobs or energy, encouraged Holtec to pursue reopening the plant and provided state funding. — Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 According to Textile Exchange, volume commitments from 11 brand partners helped establish demand to support reopening its Ortviken plant. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reopening
  1. resuming
  2. restarting
  3. continuing
Verb
  • Subsequent tests indicated no further treatment is necessary, and Leo has been slowly resuming his daily activities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Ukraine paused such attacks for three days before resuming them, citing continuing Russian attacks.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of resuming
Verb
  • Kyiv views security guarantees as essential to prevent Russia from restarting the war in the future.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • These checkpoints allow a calculation to resume after an interruption instead of restarting from scratch.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of restarting
Verb
  • The women’s basketball team recently faced off against the Atlanta Dream in game three of the WNBA Finals, continuing a whirlwind season for the league’s most valuable franchise.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • There is little benefit in continuing to pay for an old version of your life.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of continuing

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“Reopening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reopening. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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