reopens

verb

present tense third-person singular of reopen
as in continues
to begin again or return to after an interruption court will reopen after a brief recess

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Recent Examples of reopens Over the weekend, Tehran’s national security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr issued a list of demands for the US to fulfill before Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 Rather than being relegated to the scrap yard, the structure was placed into storage and is scheduled to go on public display when the London Museum reopens in November. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Even if Hormuz reopens, some shuttling is likely to continue as shipowners weigh the risks of returning to the Persian Gulf. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 Laucala Island also reopens in October 2027, following a major renovation. — Sarah Farag, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026 But also make time to visit the Chazen Museum of Art, which reopens in fall 2026 after a reinstallation project throughout its two buildings. — Samantha Lande, Midwest Living, 30 July 2026 Those forms of java will make the menu, as will other coffee house staples, when Waterbird reopens this summer. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026 On Friday, someone reopens the dashboards, reallocates budget by hand in 20-minute increments stolen between meetings and writes a learning into a doc that may or may not get reused. — Marvin Abdel-Massih, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 An Amazon spokesperson said that all shifts were canceled and employees were sent home with pay after the shooting, and on-site grief counseling will be available when the building reopens. — Lauren Victory, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reopens
  1. continues
  2. resumes
  3. restarts
Verb
  • There is no greater cautionary tale than Australia’s cane toads, whose now 200-million strong population continues to wreak havoc 91 years after being introduced to deal with the country’s cane beetle problem.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The episode picks up when Bret and Robert have their first tense interaction — their vaguely hostile and lightly homoerotic back-and-forth continues to be the highlight of the show for me.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of continues
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  • When the surveillance footage resumes about an hour later, a man can be heard shouting, but the words are unintelligible, and a vehicle horn sounds.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026
  • After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumes Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of resumes
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  • The real test will come if the district restarts the pilot and shows that the technology can support learning without putting student privacy at risk.
    — Jesse Watson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Marc restarts his revenue counter at zero every January and re-earns the year from scratch.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of restarts

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