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resuscitate

[ri-suhs-i-tayt] / rɪˈsʌs ɪˌteɪt /


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Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Emergency services stopped trying to resuscitate the nine-year-old at 18:58.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

"The first of the two was pulled out alive, but unfortunately, his body gave out and he did not survive. Doctors could not resuscitate him," regional fire bureau spokeswoman Maria Leah Sajili told AFP.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Celona, who has promised to resuscitate the city’s entertainment industry by fast-tracking film permits and cutting red tape, trails far behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

He created citywide plans for Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila and led the turn-of-the-century effort to resuscitate and expand L’Enfant’s vision of Washington, D.C.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It also licenses and resuscitates iconic brands that have fallen on hard times such as Polaroid and provides consulting services to companies.

From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2023

Their bond resuscitates a movie that might otherwise have been dead on arrival.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

This month, Saar added an outdoor sculpture to her show at the Armory: “Catfish Dreamin’,” which resuscitates an early public work that she first staged in Baltimore in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021

She gets hold of a friendly junk-yard owner’s ancient yellow Volkswagen Beetle, resuscitates it, and brings it home.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018

Great multitudes followed him, exclaiming, "This is he who resuscitates the dead, and heals the lame, and the deaf, and the blind."

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Paramedics initiated “advanced cardiac life support measures,” but Panettiere could not be resuscitated, the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

The mariners’ story—headline news at the time but largely forgotten since—is resuscitated in Eric Jay Dolin’s “The Wreck of the Mentor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Compared with the lowest group, those in the highest group had a 67% greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease or stroke, or experiencing non-fatal heart attacks, strokes or resuscitated cardiac arrest.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026

A man who was resuscitated by a GP on a train has appealed to trace her so he can say thank you for saving his life.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

In 1997 Mary W Eubanks, a Duke University biologist, resuscitated the hybridization theory in a new variant.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“The popular narrative about Johnson and Bird resuscitating a faltering league is incomplete” without mention of the American Basketball Association “and two of its signature players,” writes Mr. Epplin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Lifeguards at Bondi have been praised for their courage on the day of the December 14 attack, dragging people to safety, bandaging and resuscitating victims, and pulling panicked swimmers from the waves.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Kalen was a key piece in resuscitating the Huskies and giving this city one of the more memorable sports seasons to date.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

After soundly defeating the attempt to remove him from office and easily winning reelection the following year, Newsom focused on resuscitating what he considered to be a listless national Democratic Party.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

The Abbot worked feverishly, resuscitating, levering and pounding the prone form of Matthias.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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