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resurface

[ree-sur-fis] / riˈsɜr fɪs /
VERB
occur or appear again
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However, she explains that when she is writing her early life experiences resurface.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

But it has already become a punch line that could resurface if he runs for president.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

With adverse weather forecast and the work ahead of schedule, plans to resurface the hard shoulders were scheduled for the following week.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

What we throw away doesn’t take long to resurface, sometimes in the form of a witty, wise and gripping memoir.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Worse, neither Marti nor anyone in the CIA knew TRIGON's fate—or if he would ever resurface.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

I recently tried the “inverted filter” trend on TikTok that has been around for years and periodically resurfaces to highlight our inherent insecurities with how the world sees us.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026

Other family members expressed a desire for closure, with the DoJ quoting one family member who said "the grief resurfaces every time this case is discussed in court or other forums."

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025

The deep water that resurfaces in the Southern Ocean has been isolated for centuries or even millennia, accumulating large amounts of CO2.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025

To that end, before “Welcome to Derry” resurfaces the internet’s favorite scary clown, it foregrounds the ways that small-town charm can be an effective mask for the mundane evils we confront every day.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025

“I can’t believe you guys,” Simon says when he resurfaces.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Instead, the disease appears to have resurfaced in different parts of Europe over hundreds of years, potentially creating several new reservoirs where the bacterium could persist.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The song hit the Billboard top ten, and recently resurfaced in a slow, eerie remix for Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror film “Us.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I grew up to be a cognitive neuroscientist, and these memories resurfaced recently during my research on the transmission of trauma across generations.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

He resurfaced the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool, tried to close and rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and now has plans to build a 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

This belief that the disease was brought in resurfaced wherever the fever struck.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

It’s an argument that is easy to defend, though of course the resurfacing of these tweets has caused its own firestorm.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Nearly every project he has undertaken or planned, from resurfacing the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to renovating a public golf course, has been met with legal challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Those questions kept resurfacing throughout my reporting, particularly when I stopped talking to experts and started talking to people my own age.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

These characteristics were present throughout my youth and resurfacing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Suddenly, Jilly was up and jumping into the pool, diving down and then resurfacing, her dark-blond hair floating on the water behind her.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English



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