recrudescence

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Recent Examples of recrudescence This recrudescence of wolf warrior diplomacy is counterproductive and enables Japan to depict China as the bullying hegemon. Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025 Who would benefit from the end of community fluoridation and a recrudescence of tooth decay? Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 Although the most powerful nations, including the U.S., have made intermittently successful efforts to stem the loss of tax revenue to offshore shelters, Abrahamian identifies these dynamics as the recrudescence of colonial extraction. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 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 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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recrudescence
Noun
  • In addition, for almost two years, his wife, Deltah, drove Henard to Childress every Tuesday for infusions of Keytruda, an immune checkpoint inhibitor used to prevent recurrence of disease by attacking stray cancer cells that may still be circulating in the body.
    Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Estefan's team checks for any cancer recurrence, and his transplant team confirms that his new liver is functioning well.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the meantime, residents are being directed to complete services like property tax payments and tag renewals online while officials work to restore operations at a temporary location.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Staff, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Second-season renewals have dropped from 32% to 19% between 2020 and 2025, with platforms concentrating on long-running returners rather than gambling on sophomore seasons.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • With low vaccination rates in their community and patchy coverage in Mexico at large, that measles case translated into a national outbreak.
    Katie Silver, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Other nonprofits like Global Witness linked Facebook's past moderation failures to outbreaks of ethnic violence in Ethiopia in 2020.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026

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“Recrudescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recrudescence. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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