rediscovery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Nash said: "I was taken aback that we were able to date it and analyse the pigments. This is an exciting rediscovery, significant in understanding what was going on in Wales in the deep past."
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Before this rediscovery, no confirmed sightings had occurred for nearly 60 years.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
The discovery — or rediscovery — of these cultural artifacts isn’t trivial.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Recent decades have proved something of a golden age for the preservation and rediscovery of silent film.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
He had originally proposed the concept in Hereditary Genius as early as 1869—thirty years before the rediscovery of Mendel—but left the idea unexplored, concentrating, instead, on the mechanism of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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