resuscitate
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Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
"The first of the two was pulled out alive, but unfortunately, his body gave out and he did not survive. Doctors could not resuscitate him," regional fire bureau spokeswoman Maria Leah Sajili told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
There was no heartbeat and medics attempted to resuscitate her for 25 minutes.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
On the campaign trail, he’s promising to resuscitate the city’s entertainment industry by fast-tracking film permits and cutting red tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
We’d left him sitting by the riverbank, drying under a mulberry tree, the tiny mariposas clinging to his mouth and nostrils as if trying to resuscitate him.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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It also licenses and resuscitates iconic brands that have fallen on hard times such as Polaroid and provides consulting services to companies.
From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023
This month, Saar added an outdoor sculpture to her show at the Armory: “Catfish Dreamin’,” which resuscitates an early public work that she first staged in Baltimore in 1993.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Even if Rio resuscitates its legacy, it will be too late to convince the International Olympic Committee to return to a model in which the games drive development.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
She gets hold of a friendly junk-yard owner’s ancient yellow Volkswagen Beetle, resuscitates it, and brings it home.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
Then he leads him to a ruined cloister, where he resuscitates the guilty nuns.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
Paramedics initiated “advanced cardiac life support measures,” but Panettiere could not be resuscitated, the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
The mariners’ story—headline news at the time but largely forgotten since—is resuscitated in Eric Jay Dolin’s “The Wreck of the Mentor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Compared with the lowest group, those in the highest group had a 67% greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease or stroke, or experiencing non-fatal heart attacks, strokes or resuscitated cardiac arrest.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
Scotland died a thrilling death in Greece but Belarus' impossible draw resuscitated Scottish hopes of automatic qualification for the World Cup.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
A thirteen-year-old Eastern Shore boy, alone in his 14-foot skiff plucked a three-year-old from the frigid waters of the Corsica River yesterday afternoon and resuscitated the child while speeding through pelting rain to waiting rescuers.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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“The popular narrative about Johnson and Bird resuscitating a faltering league is incomplete” without mention of the American Basketball Association “and two of its signature players,” writes Mr. Epplin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Lifeguards at Bondi have been praised for their courage on the day of the December 14 attack, dragging people to safety, bandaging and resuscitating victims, and pulling panicked swimmers from the waves.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
After two sketchy hires and a string of management mistakes, the Cardinal made a shrewd move Monday and charged Kyle Smith with resuscitating its dormant men’s basketball program following the dismissal of Jerod Haase.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
After soundly defeating the attempt to remove him from office and easily winning reelection the following year, Newsom focused on resuscitating what he considered to be a listless national Democratic Party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Working quickly, he straddles Lincoln’s chest and begins resuscitating the president, hoping to improve the flow of oxygen to his brain.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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