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resurrect

[rez-uh-rekt] / ˌrɛz əˈrɛkt /


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And I’m sure someone has told her not to resurrect Nate Bargatze’s bizarre charity scheme to keep acceptance speeches short.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

And after canceling its money-losing electric F-150 Lightning truck last December, Ford says it will resurrect that truck as an EREV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

If Fox won’t resurrect Firefly, they're certainly not going to bring back Bunker.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

The film resurrects the story of sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, modern day witches who face a curse that sees any man they fall in love with doomed to an early death.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

It resurrects the controversial so-called "Highway to Hel" bus journey formerly run by local company PKS Gdynia.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

In a later chapter, Toscano resurrects another ‘70s radical, the Italian literary critic Furio Jesi, whose extraordinary insights into the “religion and mythology of death” in right-wing culture were entirely new to me.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024

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

The story of a young god typical of the Spring who suffers a premature death, and after a time resurrects from the grave is well known in the mythologies of other nations.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler

See also "what's the point?" and "do we need another one?" whenever a story is resurrected from the past.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Barber and Sil caution that resurrected antimicrobial peptides are unlikely to become new medicines anytime soon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

What we have here might be an example of the Tinkerbell effect, named for the “Peter Pan” character who could be resurrected from death by audience participation, i.e. belief in fairies.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Coltrane was a version of the resurrected black man, much like Malcolm X, a public figure he admired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture— must be resurrected from the ruins and examined.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

He continued: "We're definitely interested in whether by resurrecting or engineering some enhanced antimicrobial peptides, we could use these as therapeutics down the road."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

The cost of Gary, Ind.’s blight elimination campaign, which includes demolishing part of the downtown, securing investment from local employers and resurrecting dormant neighborhoods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The BBC's filling the gap on iPlayer by resurrecting classic sets from its archive - from Radiohead in 1997 to Olivia Rodrigo last year.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

Once I did, the system asked me if, in addition to resurrecting their avatars, I wanted to restore all of their lost items, too.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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