resurrect
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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
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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
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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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