reinvent

How to use reinvent in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for reinvent.

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Learn your basics before you try to reinvent stuff.

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Quick take

bring back into existence; "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reinvent gathered in one view.

verb

bring back into existence; "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected"

verb

create anew and make over; "He reinvented African music for American listeners"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reinvent.

verb

bring back into existence; "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected"

verb

create anew and make over; "He reinvented African music for American listeners"

Example sentences

Learn your basics before you try to reinvent stuff.

We need to start with a clean slate and reinvent all the wheels all over again.

That's ok, keep promoting the hiring of greenhorns who think everything they dream up is new and then proceed to reinvent the wheel.

Natural law is one of those tenured ideas that we always rediscover or reinvent when our statute laws start going too far astray.

Like, today.- Don't optimise for scalability until you know what the product is supposed to be- Don't try and reinvent the scrollbar, you idiots.

You are missing out on a treasure trove of knowledge humanity has collated over centuries, just to hack away and reinvent the wheel by yourself...well, good luck with that.

I've always found it interesting that we techies generally avoid reinventing the wheel in our work but feel compelled to reinvent it in matters of spiritually.

As Alan Kay keeps reminding us, the programming community doesn't really learn anything that is done in the past and is doomed to keep reinventing stuff or working on things that have been shown not to work.

If this is a call to arms to scale the Requests experience, it could grow into something really powerful - a movement to systematically reinvent and rejuvenate the Python standard library.

I personally know of at least two marriages that ended in divorce for reasons entirely unrelated to the quality of the relationship - one or both parties had a mid-life crisis, tried to reinvent themselves to assuage their existential angst, divorced, utterly alienated their partner in the process and ended up bitterly regretting it.