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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

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

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

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

Hazel hadn’t felt anything like it since the cave in Alaska where Gaea had forced her to resurrect Porphyrion the giant king.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

And coming July 17 will be a show that resurrects Disney as an audio-animatronic, temporarily displacing “Great Moments of Mr. Lincoln” at the Main Street Opera House.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Who is this man who resurrects the Dead?

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

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

Until this month, the resurrected Chevy Metal could only perform during Shane’s breaks from his boarding school on the East Coast, but he is newly graduated and ready to play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Gule Wamkulu were said to be the spirits of our dead ancestors, resurrected from the afterworld and sent to roam the earth.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

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 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

Colossal’s latest announcement was that it has hatched 26 chickens in an “artificial egg” — a “foundational step,” it said, “toward resurrecting extinct bird species” such as the New Zealand giant moa and the dodo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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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