resurgence

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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resurgent (rɪˈsɜːdʒənt)

—*adj*
	rising again, as to new life, vigour, etc: resurgent nationalism

re'surgence

—n

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resurgent

1808, from obs. verb resurge "to rise again" (1575), from L. resurgere "rise again," from re- "again" + surgere "to rise" (see surge). Modern verb resurge (1887) is a back-formation.

Example sentences

Resurgence of large dams threatens tribal people worldwide, report says.

But the latest spike in fuel prices has pedal-started a moped resurgence.

Central to this resurgence of religious partisanship was the call for the

faith-based values that secularism had displaced.

One of the voices chronicling the resurgence of high tech may soon be silenced.

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"By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case."

-Mary Kay Blakely

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