re-enactment


noun
  1. the acting out or repetition of a past event or situation

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How to use re-enactment in a sentence

  • Should any congressman propose their reenactment to-day, he would be looked upon as a crank and be laughed out of court.

    Thomas Jefferson | Edward S. Ellis et. al.
  • But there isn't, unless it's some law of the Bible, which isn't in force through reenactment in Ohio.

    The Leatherwood God | William Dean Howells
  • I secured the reenactment of the Civil Service Law, which under my predecessor had very foolishly been repealed.

    Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt
  • The next position that we established during the reenactment is frame 161 of the Zapruder motion picture film.

    Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • And what is the comparison between the photograph from Zapruder film on that Exhibit No. 889 and the photograph from reenactment?

    Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy