RESURFACED Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

resurfaced

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past tense of resurface

as in reappeared

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After halftime, the Patriots quarterback appeared to find the form that put him in the MVP race in 2025, going 9 for 10 for 146 yards and two touchdowns.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026
The Chiefs appeared to have pulled out a thrilling victory Sunday in Denver.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026

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Photographs released by the sheriff’s office showed one helicopter overturned and another severely damaged.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The last snapshot of that data, published in September 2024, showed there were nearly 428,000 Black federal employees, representing about 19% of the total workforce.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026

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The former Long Beach police chief, Luna came out of retirement to run for sheriff in 2022, arguing that incumbent Alex Villanueva had taken the department in the wrong direction.

— Times staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Australia had allowed Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to drill a major new natural gas field there with the requirement that the companies buried at least 80% of the CO2 that came out of the ground with it.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

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His return last Friday, now a star at Florida, offered a reminder how differently his career could have unfolded.

— Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
The bloody slayings unfolded about three miles apart, near the southern and northern ends of University Ave.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

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