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resurrect

[rez-uh-rekt] / ˌrɛz əˈrɛkt /


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Today, Cabimas is ground zero for the U.S. effort to resurrect the sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

For a story about witches who have both the curse to kill something and the ability to resurrect it, reappraising a dead-on-arrival film is appropriately meta.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

In an interview with iNews, Burnham said he wanted to resurrect the northern leg of HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester, external.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

We will go back for Cedric and in doing so we will resurrect the world you saw, Scorpius .

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

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

A new collection of Eve Babitz’s largely unsent correspondence, “Too L.A.,” resurrects the cult writer’s singular voice — and revelry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Another massive piece, “Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE,” resurrects the medieval city of Kumbi Saleh, the capital of the ancient Ghanaian empire, as a gleaming, futuristic hub.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

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

A year later, the programme was resurrected, given a new title, That's Life! and Rantzen was selected as the main presenter.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The oldest resurrected antimicrobial peptides were able to disrupt bacterial membranes, but the bacteria apparently repaired the damage and survived exposure to the peptides.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Marguerite, who represents Mary Magdalene, falls to her knees, for she recognizes the resurrected Christ.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

They produced a tome of their own, naming new species and resurrecting those that had been axed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

Me and Ryder see every day how the forest is slowly, gradually resurrecting.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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