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
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Ultimately, this wasn’t an ordinary footprint, but direct evidence that humans were present along the Angus coastline during the late Iron Age, preserving both a physical imprint and an ecological snapshot of the land from two millennia ago.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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Galen, the famous Greek physician of ancient Rome, wrote a medicinal recipe two millennia ago.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
20 Feb. 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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Our destination was a cluster of coral pinnacles called Rib Reef, on the Great Barrier Reef’s outer edge.—
Susan Casey,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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The showstopper was a two-and-a-half-pound horsehair crab, one of the glories of Hokkaido's coastal waters, presented whole and then steamed and shelled.—
Alex Halberstadt,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Renaissances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renaissances. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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