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resurrect

[rez-uh-rekt] / ˌrɛz əˈrɛkt /


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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

But after two overly miserable years, Andy Burnham's talent and long-burning ambition give him a chance at No 10 and offer Labour a chance to resurrect themselves.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

For almost 35 years, he has been on a mission to resurrect, clarify and strengthen neglected constitutional principles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

And I long for a place beyond immortality where I can, in some small measure, resurrect the wonder, and be that boy again.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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 Stoics return to Heracleitus for their physics, Epicurus resurrects the atomism of Democritus.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

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

As for being resurrected for Season 2, Linklater admits he pitched Dippold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

However, sources say the transfer could be resurrected later in the summer depending how the window develops for United, although the club would not be prepared to sanction any move at the previously agreed terms.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

But today, supposing that it could be somehow resurrected from its ashes, the photograph might not even be evidence.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

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

Admirable though Mr. Lynn’s dedication to resurrecting Wilder’s unfinished work may be, the production affirms what Wilder seems to have deduced about the play: that he could never quite realize his ambitions for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

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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