resurfacing

Definition of resurfacingnext
present participle of resurface
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Verb
  • Amy Beck — the mom of influencer Noah Beck — has been placed on administrative leave by her school district after a video resurfaced of her appearing to simulate oral sex with her son.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Hill said while appearing on stage with hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In October 2025, a report was released by Blue Water Baltimore and Waterfront Partnership, showing that some areas in the harbor were improving and other areas were headed in the wrong direction.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The documents include more than 20 video files showing unidentified objects captured by military sensors in locations from Syria and Japan to North America.
    Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • The tight timeline puts a lot of pressure on the Artemis III lander testing mission, as well as the uncrewed tests proposed for SpaceX and Blue Origin, with funding for the latter coming out of the companies’ own pockets.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • That eased some of the concern coming out of Game 2, when Thompson was one of Buffalo’s worst players.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • Modern telescopes and sky surveys are capturing the universe in extraordinary detail, but interpreting that data requires simulations that can reproduce both the large-scale structure of the cosmos and the complex physics unfolding within galaxies.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 6 May 2026
  • And the constant presence of four effortlessly irresistible sisters, each unfolding towards the light like a peony, has stunted her growth.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • The council voted unanimously Thursday to shift away from deciding how many bus stops the new law will affect, leaving that decision up to the county’s regional planning agency — the San Diego Association of Governments — to make in coming weeks.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • The Bridgeport Islanders, which played hockey in the state for more than two decades, announced a move to Canada in the coming months.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
Verb
  • The systems can reportedly be deployed through both 260mm and 533mm torpedo tubes, allowing submarines to launch them without surfacing.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • Through that initiative, Totoki said the company has identified substantial speed and productivity gains per person, while also surfacing shortcomings in current models – particularly around consistency and controllability.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • Backbench Labour MPs — parliamentarians without a position in government — are reportedly planning to blame looming losses on the prime minister and demand his resignation.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • But with Game 3 looming, the Wild are looking for any step in the right direction.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • Animal-print shoes have kept turning up this spring, after a late-2025 and early-2026 winter run.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 11 May 2026
  • Two weeks ago, the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency after the mussels began increasingly turning up in water equipment there.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
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“Resurfacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resurfacing. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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