as in millennia
a period of high artistic or cultural development
the 19th-century literary renaissance that prompted people to refer to Boston as the Athens of America
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Recent Examples of renaissances
The pair experienced career renaissances with the success of their sitcom Schitt's Creek, which ran from 2015 to 2020.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renaissances
Noun
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The Catholic Church has lasted two millennia.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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That first hectare sits along the SP68, the oldest wine road ever recorded, connecting Gela to Kamarina three millennia ago.—
Jenn Rice,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This sea of sharp buttes and sky-high pinnacles offers numerous west-facing vantage points.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Outside,
1 Mar. 2026
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Sea turtles snoozed, manta rays glided, and reef fish darted by the thousands over lava pinnacles covered in corals and basket sponges.—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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His boldest innovation is to invoke not past glories but past disasters, summoning the ghosts of the United States’ catastrophic interventions in Iraq.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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But, mostly, city dwellers are deprived of the true glories of the season.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Renaissances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renaissances. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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