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reanimate, recharge, regenerate, rejuvenate, rekindle, renew, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revivify, rewake, rewaken
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Clocking in at a half-millimeter long, the nematodes that wriggled back to life were the most complex creatures Vishnivetskaya - or anyone else - had ever revived after a lengthy deep freeze. — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, "Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost," 8 July 2019 And much of that growth has come in the Permian Basin, an aged oil field revived by new drilling technology. — James Osborne, Houston Chronicle, "U.S. surpasses 12 million barrels a day, EIA reports," 8 July 2019 The government seems unwilling to increase public spending, hoping that easing access to capital markets will revive private investment. — Rahul Menon, Quartz India, "The Modi government wants a $5 trillion economy by 2024, but has done little to back it," 8 July 2019 North Korea’s missiles could now comfortably reach all of Europe, and Iran had also revived its nuclear programme. — The Economist, "Europe alone: July 2024," 6 July 2019 In 2015, Greece was on the forefront of a wave of populist revolutions around the world, voting into power a band of radical leftists who promised to reject economic austerity and revive the nation after a wipeout as big as the Great Depression. — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, "Greek elections are expected to bring a populist experiment to an end," 6 July 2019 The deal revived hopes for a peaceful transition of power in a country plagued by internal conflicts and years of economic crisis that helped trigger the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir in April. — Reuters, The Mercury News, "U.S. welcomes Sudan power-sharing deal as ‘important step forward’," 6 July 2019 About half a century ago, Lyndon Johnson launched a war not on the struggles of the American middle class but on poverty—which had been revived as a major issue by activists and public intellectuals like the socialist Michael Harrington. — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, "Democrats’ Cautious Return to the War on Poverty," 30 June 2019 But Rhodes is hopeful that the city’s young tech workers can revive the seisún. — Maggie Hoffman, SFChronicle.com, "At Irish bar the Plough and the Stars, something special happens, and it’s called a seisún," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'revive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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