anastasis

American  

[uh-nas-tuh-sis] / əˈnæs tə sɪs /

noun

plural

anastases

1. a representation, in Byzantine art, of Christ harrowing hell.

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Etymology

Origin of anastasis

< Greek anástasis a raising up, removal. See ana-, stasis

Example Sentences

“There hasn’t been a lot of tooling that targets speeding up AI research,” said Anastasis Germanidis, chief technology officer of the synthetic video startup Runway.

From Los Angeles Times

“The fire burned olive and pine trees in a thick forest. Distressing to see residents running around with hoses, it’s a sad picture,” Anastasis Giolis, vice-prefect of Corinth told state TV ERT.

From Reuters

The standouts include two crimson-and-purple-toned paintings by Katherine Bradford, “Brothers” and “Boxers Under Lights,” in which flat male figures are crossed and stacked like I-beams, and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s “Anastasis of the Wild,” in which a gorgeous multicolored wolf trots alongside its own incarnate shadow.

From New York Times

It also says that corresponding author Anastasis Stephanou, who used to work in Latchman’s lab, “regrets the inappropriate figure manipulations of which the co-authors were completely unaware”.

From Nature

And Anastasis, 5, barely avoided a root canal earlier this year.

From Reuters