reviver

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Instead, the rapturous reception and £1.3bn-plus worldwide gross are clear indicators that Abrams, 49, is now Hollywood’s most trusted reviver of ailing franchises.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2016

He was the prime reviver of our ragged, treasured art.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2012

Don’t forget that there’s also a corpse reviver No. 1.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2011

Its growth as an arts institution was fueled by Wade F. B. Thompson, a nearby resident and reviver of the Airstream trailer line who died in 2009.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2011

The intervention of Charles the Great in this controversy is but one illustration of the importance of theological questions in the outlook of the reviver of the Empire in the Catholic West.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden