recrudescence

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Recent Examples of recrudescence Who would benefit from the end of community fluoridation and a recrudescence of tooth decay? Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 With that comes the prerogative to employ medieval cruelties – recrudescences from pre-modern empire redeployed in the present. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 All this will lead to a recrudescence of interesting political theory. The Economist, 19 June 2019 Only this wise, collegial institution prevents a recrudescence of World War II. Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019 This recrudescence of wolf warrior diplomacy is counterproductive and enables Japan to depict China as the bullying hegemon. Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025 This is also evident in the recrudescence of the Little House on the Prairie look for younger women, a style that has historically been a favorite among the chronically abstinent. Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020 The coverage of Italy’s recent elections in the American press has portrayed the success of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party as a sudden and dangerous recrudescence of Italy’s fascist past. Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recrudescence
Noun
  • Evert was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021 and then had a recurrence in 2022.
    Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The jewelry designer and mother of two had a lumpectomy, underwent radiation and took Tamoxifen to reduce her risk of recurrence.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Each of Pennsylvania’s 2,562 municipalities maintains its own license requirements, each with its own exam, experience requirements, and renewal cycle, and no reciprocity between them.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Allows the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue lifetime disabled parking permits, removing the current four-year renewal requirement, to people with a permanent dismemberment or an amputation (HB 961).
    Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • While norovirus is frequently associated with cruise ships, those instances account for just 1% of all outbreaks reported.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • That is far smaller than the 2025 outbreak that killed millions of commercial poultry.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

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“Recrudescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recrudescence. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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