resurrect
verb (used with object)
to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
were resurrecting
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past progressiveof resurrect.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Officials were resurrecting the “flawed tactic of using young African American men’s art as a tool of incrimination,” Blacknell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
In that moment, the Nationals were resurrecting an activity from spring training.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
But the contemporary era has been marked by the opposite discrepancy: even as the new culturalists were resurrecting Moynihan’s diagnosis, the scourge of crime was in retreat.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2015
The Palestinians even announced that they were resurrecting Black September, the dread group named after the month in 1970 when King Hussein brutally kicked Palestinian commandos out of Jordan.
From Time Magazine Archive
