reinvent the wheel

Examples of reinventing

reinventing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It also helps us to avoid reinventing the wheel or repeating past mistakes.
There is some reinventing the wheel, but there are also fresh emphases.
How to analyse these transformations is an important question, and yet there are precedents that need to be recovered before reinventing the wheel.
In reinventing negative feedback, the genetic programming algorithm did not rely on logic.
We now have contact with our neighbouring practices, it's good, we don't all go reinventing the wheel.
Once compiled and easily available, these tables would free successive generations from the empirical task of reinventing the wheel, so to speak.
We are constantly reinventing our traditions in the various stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, incorporating new experiences and material.
In other words, genetic programming succeeded, in the earlier work, in reinventing a previously patented invention.
The project he defined was that of reinventing the past, of preserving memory (yaddasht) in relation to selected narratives.
Another possibility is to dispense with the conventional concerns of authority and recording altogether, reinventing the sound and the instrument itself at every moment.
Reinventing theatre is one aspect of the legacy they have left to us.
The more serious variety of magazines have also taken to reinventing the language in a rather big way.
Not to make the effort is misguided; granted that different readers will form different interpretations, there is no point in reinventing the wheel.
This focus on recovering, remembering and reinventing brings an interesting perspective to an important, highly idealized and much-studied repertory.
This demonstrates one of the pitfalls of crossover genres, which is that the explorer in either direction may in certain respects be reinventing the wheel rather than discovering something new.
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