RESURFACED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

resurfaced

verb

past tense of resurface

as in reappeared

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Ibrahimovic appeared surprised when Haaland later showed him the finished look during a video call.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Yet, after the opening game, there appeared to be more questions than answers.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of appeared

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One showed the Ohio State University football mascot, Brutus Buckeye, tackling Buc-ee the beaver.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Police said security camera footage showed that Alisa Goods had fallen down an embankment and collapsed and couldn’t be seen from the adjacent roadway, Wayne Newton Boulevard.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of showed

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Back then, Jenkins (and many of his peers) lost a lot of money building power plants when the rush of electricity demand that was supposed to be unleashed by deregulation never really materialized.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Organizational trust erodes when employees watch colleagues cut for AI capabilities that have not materialized, and when the technology that was supposed to replace those colleagues arrives instead as a six-figure infrastructure bill.

— Susan LaMotte, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of materialized

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Rivalries are a defining aspect of the drama on Palm Royale, but in season two, the claws literally came out in a knock-down, drag-across-the-house showdown between Kristen Wiig’s Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons and Claudia Ferri’s Raquel Kimberly-Marco.

— Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
The area was incredibly special to Chamberlain, who first came out East to stay with Larry Rivers in Southampton, long before the town was a bastion of Sant Ambroeus and Brandy Melville.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of came out

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The president was discussing how Democrats want to impeach him when the incident unfolded.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
The jury was listening intently and looking at the screen as the story of the shooting unfolded, more engaged after already listening to hours of the recording.

— Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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