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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

Helbig states this curious fact, that the Homeric poems are free from many recent or recrudescent ideas common in other Epics composed during the later centuries of the supposed four hundred years of Epic growth.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

Then the owner died, bankrupt, and for years it remained untenanted, the recrudescent bush slowly enveloping its once highly cultivated lands, and the deadly black snake, iguana, and 'possum harbouring among the deserted outbuildings.

From The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 by Becke, Louis

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

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