How to Use reunify in a Sentence

reunify

verb
  • Germany was split in two, then reunified; Jünger was still there.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The family has yet to be reunified.
    — Jui Sarwate, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Our motherland must be reunified, and it will surely be reunified.
    — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • That caseworker’s support helped Bear reunify with her children, making her one of the few lucky ones.
    — Raynee Howell, Oklahoma Watch, 9 Feb. 2026
  • It's tasked with finding ways to protect children, heal their families if possible and then find ways to reunify them.
    — CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • School staff members and officers are working together to reunify parents with their children, the post said.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Magdalena and her daughters would be among the first few hundred families reunified under Biden.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • 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
  • On another, a dotted line showed East and West Germany, before they were reunified.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Five years ago, Redstone’s daughter, Shari, reunified the company.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The final step in the plan is to reunify students with their parents, at a location that will be determined based on the circumstances of the emergency.
    — Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 23 July 2024
  • The goal, barring exceptional circumstances, should always be to keep the kids with mom or dad, or to reunify the family as fast as possible.
    — Shari F. Shink, The Denver Post, 25 May 2024
  • 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 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
  • Two open-wheel series were not sustainable and in 2008 reunified for what is now IndyCar.
    — Jenna Fryer, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Once Christophe died in October 1820, Boyer was able to reunify the two sides of the country.
    — Marlene Daut, Quartz Africa, 3 July 2020
  • Successive efforts to reunify the island have failed, most recently in 2017.
    — Kerim Karakaya, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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

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