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The story is about a scientist who claimed that he could resurrect the dead.
He is trying to resurrect his acting career.
an old government program that is being resurrected
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The garish and unpleasant use of CGI to resurrect the late Ian Holm as an unnerving copycat of his original android Ash feels like an apt metaphor for a film more concerned with chasing the past than charting itself a new course.
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
On Monday, city workers visited a longtime encampment lining the sidewalks outside San Francisco’s only DMV office that had been cleared more than a dozen times this year only to resurrect days later.
—Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
While Logan, the last film in the Wolverine trilogy, sees the Adamantium-clawed hero die, the latest film’s opening scene features Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) resurrecting his corpse to fight off a squadron of Time Variance Authority officers.
—The Deadline Team, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2024
Holm's likeness was digitally resurrected for the movie, a controversial practice that Disney has previously employed to bring back Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa and Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin in the Star Wars franchise.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
On Monday, city workers visited a longtime encampment lining the sidewalks outside San Francisco’s only DMV office that had been cleared more than a dozen times this year only to resurrect days later.
—Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
While Logan, the last film in the Wolverine trilogy, sees the Adamantium-clawed hero die, the latest film’s opening scene features Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) resurrecting his corpse to fight off a squadron of Time Variance Authority officers.
—The Deadline Team, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2024
Holm's likeness was digitally resurrected for the movie, a controversial practice that Disney has previously employed to bring back Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa and Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin in the Star Wars franchise.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Resurrect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurrect. Accessed 15 Sep. 2024.
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resurrect
verb
res·ur·rect
ˌrez-ə-ˈrekt 
1
: to raise from the dead : bring back to life
2
: to bring to attention or into use again
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