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recrudescent

American  
[ree-kroo-des-uhnt] / ˌri kruˈdɛs ənt /

adjective

  1. breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; reviving or reappearing.

    Recrudescent tuberculosis in that part of the world is presenting challenges for some ill-equipped health systems.

    The region is haunted by the specter of ethnic chauvinism and a recrudescent nationalism.


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The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Her voice fell; she was trembling with the recrudescent suffering of that year-long servitude.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

Before he knew it, with a recrudescent guilty pang, he had tossed the half-smoked cigar away and slackened his pace until his feet dragged in the old lifeless, East Falls manner.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

The Nemedians meanwhile supplied similarly a recrudescent race, the Tuatha Dé Danann, of whom came the Dagda,—the all-king, almost the Zeus of ancient Ireland.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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