How to Use reunify in a Sentence

reunify

verb
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  • China has long claimed sovereignty over the island and has vowed to reunify it with the rest of the mainland by 2027.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Germany was split in two, then reunified; Jünger was still there.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Once Christophe died in October 1820, Boyer was able to reunify the two sides of the country.
    — Marlene Daut, Quartz Africa, 3 July 2020
  • The ultimate goal is to reunify that child with their parent, or when that isn’t an option, to find the best adoptive home for them.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Adler said the project has reunified about 800 families.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • China has not ruled out force to reunify with Taiwan, which split from the mainland during a civil war in 1949.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • But the bottom line is that the political regime in East Germany had to fall before the country could be reunified.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • Intervening has emerged as a way for aspiring adopters to move things along and have more of a say in whether the birth family should be reunified.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • China and Taiwan split during a civil war in 1949, and Beijing has not ruled out using force to reunify with the island.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • When the Berlin Wall came down and Germany reunified, the trickle became a flood and thousands of letters began to arrive every day in the run up to Christmas.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The harder North and South Korea work to reunify, the more entrenched their separation seems to become.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Also left out are Vena’s outbursts in court, which a judge and his own former attorney warned would hurt his efforts to be reunified with the child.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • China wants to reunify the self-governing island of Taiwan with its mainland, a goal that could be carried out through force.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Two open-wheel series were not sustainable and in 2008 reunified for what is now IndyCar.
    — Jenna Fryer, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Child welfare workers still refused to reunify the family in that home or at the shelter, asserting that the children would not be safe, records show.
    — USA Today, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Even so, the biggest test of whether Philip’s death can reunify his warring family seems likely to come at his funeral.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Passing the test for these language-learners could mean a green card, a medical school admission or the chance to reunify with family abroad.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The island is a self-governing democracy, but Beijing views it as part of its territory and has pledged to reunify it with the mainland.
    — Chris Megerian, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Riebeling-Nunez was able to turn her life around, get sober and, ultimately, reunify her family — with the support of Sara and Tony Iagmin, the couple who took her kids in and raised them in her stead.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
  • There are children who are reunified with their families.
    — Rachel O'Neal, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
  • Parents waiting to reunify with their children expressed fear at hearing of an active shooter at the school in addition to the loss of a sense of security.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2024
  • The next year, the wasteful and confusing municipality system came to an end when the state Legislature passed an act to reunify the city.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Chic felt even more naive for believing that the government that separated her from her daughter would now reunify them.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
  • During this time, a relative could petition to become the child’s guardian or a birth parent could petition to reunify with their child, Stogel said.
    — Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • However, the court has stopped short of ordering the government to allow hundreds of parents who’d been deported to return to the U.S. to reunify with children here.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • This could produce another crisis—far bigger than the other two—if China were to test the resolve of the United States and its allies by trying to forcibly reunify Taiwan with the mainland.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Magdalena and her daughters would be among the first few hundred families reunified under Biden.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • This was one of Gorbachev’s last opportunities to get something from the West before Germany reunified.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Our motherland must be reunified, and it will surely be reunified.
    — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Officially signaling the end of French colonial rule in the region, the partition was meant to be temporary until reunifying elections could be held the following year.
    — TIME, 16 May 2024

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