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Resurgent means literally a "rising again". We may speak of a resurgent baseball team, a resurgent steel industry, the resurgence of jogging, or a resurgence of violence in a war zone. Resurgence is particularly prominent in its Italian translation, risorgimento. In the 19th century, when the Italian peninsula consisted of a number of small independent states, a popular movement known as the Risorgimento managed to unify the peninsula and create the modern state of Italy in 1870.
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The award recognized a resurgent season in which Pitino, in his second year at St. John’s, led the Red Storm to a 31-5 record, their first outright Big East regular-season championship since 1985 and their first Big East Tournament title since 2000.
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
The latter, of course, feels unattainable in a time of worker precarity and a resurgent grind culture.
—Anna North, Vox, 27 Mar. 2025
With the exception of Republicans, most rank-and-file Americans now predict resurgent inflation in the coming months.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
The latter, of course, feels unattainable in a time of worker precarity and a resurgent grind culture.
—Anna North, Vox, 27 Mar. 2025
With the exception of Republicans, most rank-and-file Americans now predict resurgent inflation in the coming months.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
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“Resurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurgent. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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resurgent
adjective
re·sur·gent
-jənt 
: undergoing or tending to produce resurgence
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