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resurrect

[rez-uh-rekt] / ˌrɛz əˈrɛkt /


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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s immediate rejection of the idea brought Kushner back into the mix to see if he could resurrect a little of that old Kissinger magic.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

He used his popularity not to jump into Hollywood projects but to resurrect “Tires.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Others are preserving genetic material in case we ever work out how to resurrect species from the dead.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Researchers have found that the only way to resurrect the small-cap effect is to focus on small-cap stocks that are at the quality end of the “quality-versus-junk” spectrum.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

“Excepting whatever that lawyer writes, which probably won’t see the light of day unless they resurrect that little magazine.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

On Symmetry he even resurrects Shape Of You's analogy of two bodies pulling together like magnets.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2025

It’s more accurate to say Eminem resurrects him than to argue that he’s been using him as a crutch for 25 years.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2024

Blakemore’s killer memoir “Stage Blood” resurrects the early days of the National Theatre under the aegis of Laurence Olivier.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2023

Cellulose: Made from up to 85% recycled paper and paper waste, cellulose resurrects old paper from the dead to keep your creepy cottage comfortable.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2023

If there is a second or third brood, the pupa resurrects in ten days or so into the moth; eggs are laid; larvæ are hatched; pupæ again are formed; and thus is the process continued.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

Now they’ve won 14 straight and resurrected their season.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Plans were approved, then mothballed, and then resurrected.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

But these are all previously animated ideas resurrected pretty much as we’ve already seen them.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

It appears to be curtains again for “All My Children,” the soap opera that ran four decades on ABC before being canceled, then resurrected as an Internet series.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

His eyes caught on Sarai for a long tremulous moment and she knew what he was seeing: Isagol the Terrible, resurrected from the dead.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Part of the plan includes resurrecting dormant neighborhoods by refurbishing homes and building new ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Instead, Lodge, who goes by Cabot, picked up an HP-12C financial calculator and never looked back, perhaps with an eye to resurrecting the family’s business bona fides.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

But outside scientists suggest it’s a stretch to see that as a major step toward resurrecting the moa, a giant flightless bird that disappeared from its New Zealand habitat in the 1400s.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

During his lifetime, he amassed two million acres of land across nine states, most of which he maintained for ecological preservation, including resurrecting bison populations from the brink of extinction.

From Salon May 8, 2026

There, and in a private meeting with Hitler, he had been mesmerized, as many visiting Americans were, by Hitler’s force of personality and by his undeniable accomplishments in resurrecting Germany’s economy.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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