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Many filmmakers would have stopped there, but news leaked in the mid-2010s that the original creators were reviving the world of “Twin Peaks” yet again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Renaissance thinkers and artists very consciously made the claim that they were reviving long-lost traditions from the classical world in areas as diverse as scholar-ship, poetry, architecture, and sculpture.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Bit by bit, these locals were reviving the city, with Web services, excavations, renovations, or small artisanal stores.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

But Morris denied they were reviving the franchise just to make money.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2015

The Christian missions which others were reviving in Prussia and beginning in Hungary were undertaken on a vaster scale by the Capets.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various