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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.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
In the second half of the season, Yolo finished one game behind the resurgent Ballers, who earned homefield advantage by winning five more games this season than the High Wheelers.
—Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
It was driven by an inchoate but resurgent English nationalism.
—Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2024
Drawing on a resurgent Russian spy force and a new army of local recruits in target countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened a new chapter in Russian gray zone operations in the West.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Resurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurgent. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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