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resurrect

[rez-uh-rekt] / ˌrɛz əˈrɛkt /


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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

When Antonio Filosa, a company veteran, became Stellantis chief executive last year, one of his first decisions was to resurrect the V-8 engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025

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

Lo, Spring comes forth with all her warmth and love, She brings sweet justice from the realms above; She breaks the chrysalis, she resurrects the dead; Two butterflies ascend encircling her head.

From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

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

GM resurrected its beloved Chevrolet Bolt earlier this year but decided to curtail production to one shift instead of two, and will phase the vehicle out in 2027 to make way for gas-powered vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

I began to resign myself to my misfortune and to ask no longer that she be resurrected but simply that I would arrive in time to see her one last time before they buried her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

While working at the BBC, Tranter was responsible for resurrecting sci-fi show “Doctor Who.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Perhaps not, she thinks, perhaps it is a personality phenomenon: the real Yolanda resurrecting on an August afternoon above the kempt green lawns of this private facility.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez


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