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The duo had jump-started the AI-for-Erdős craze late last year by prompting a free version of ChatGPT with open problems chosen at random from the Erdős problems website.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026 -
In a step forward, city leaders recently jump-started early conversations with state officials on how to successfully navigate, this time, future development of the stadium property.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2026
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Another witness is Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1864), resurrected from his resting place among the Black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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This project was briefly resurrected in the 1940s, but again nothing materialized.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2026
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Familiar formulas cannot simply be revived.—
Nawaf M. Al-Thani,
semafor.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Frank Zappa’s estate has revived their archival Vaulternative Records for the first time in nearly a decade to showcase a Mothers of Invention session from 1966.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin has now revitalized two horror franchises that both deal with the villainous undead.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
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The sport is being blessed with a generation of male champions who have revitalized it, injecting a sense of drama that had been missing for years, when race strategies felt predictable and viewers would often only tune in for the last kilometers.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The Escalade singlehandedly rejuvenated sales and lowered the average age of a Cadillac buyer by about a decade.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Neither Nolan Arenado nor Carlos Santana looks rejuvenated in their new environment.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Medics resuscitated the man before taking him to a hospital.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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He was intubated, but he could not be resuscitated, and he was pronounced dead.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Kick-started.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kick-started. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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