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Resurgent means literally a "rising again". We may speak of a resurgent baseball team, a resurgent steel industry, the resurgence of jogging, or a resurgence of violence in a war zone. Resurgence is particularly prominent in its Italian translation, risorgimento. In the 19th century, when the Italian peninsula consisted of a number of small independent states, a popular movement known as the Risorgimento managed to unify the peninsula and create the modern state of Italy in 1870.
Examples of resurgent in a Sentence
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
The most comfortable pillows left us feeling supported while sleeping and did not leave us with any new or resurgent aches to contend with in the morning.
—Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2024
Intel Given its recent manufacturing troubles, a resurgent AMD, an incursion from Qualcomm, and Apple’s shift from customer to competitor, it’s been a rough few years for Intel’s processors.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
This provided fuel for a resurgent Taliban insurgency that began a few years later.
—Michael A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
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“Resurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurgent. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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