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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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And a summit in the US state of Alaska, of all places, is red meat to resurgent Russian nationalists who still bluster about the territory being rightfully theirs.
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Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
At the time of the injury, Gates was playing as well as any member of a resurgent defense.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
The acute worry prompted by last week's steep downward revisions to payroll growth since the spring was allayed by resurgent market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September, abetted by a chorus of more dovish rhetoric.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025
The pressure comes from the resurgent veteran being faced with the task of helping Iyo and Rhea deliver a match as good or better than the one the latter two had with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
At the time of the injury, Gates was playing as well as any member of a resurgent defense.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
The acute worry prompted by last week's steep downward revisions to payroll growth since the spring was allayed by resurgent market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut in September, abetted by a chorus of more dovish rhetoric.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025
The pressure comes from the resurgent veteran being faced with the task of helping Iyo and Rhea deliver a match as good or better than the one the latter two had with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Resurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurgent. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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resurgent
adjective
re·sur·gent
-jənt 
: undergoing or tending to produce resurgence
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