as in to continue
to begin again or return to after an interruption
we resumed the game as soon as the rain had passed
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or resume
also resumé
as in summary
a short statement of the main points
a book on the assassination that is in effect a résumé of all of the evidence that points to a conspiracy
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Recent Examples of resume
Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Production at the plant came to a standstill during the raid, but Schmidt said operations have resumed – though at reduced capacity.
—Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
The filmmaker, weary of world and resplendent of beard, eventually does resurface on screen, and production resumes on his film-maudit-within-a-film, though that doesn’t stop him expressing his concern that his medium is dying.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Ruth has resumed her normal training sessions with the animal care team and has been in the outdoor habitat.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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The new bride resumed her teaching duties, remaining at Rohwer through the waning days of the war in mid-1945.
—Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2025
Production at the plant came to a standstill during the raid, but Schmidt said operations have resumed – though at reduced capacity.
—Hanna Park, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
The filmmaker, weary of world and resplendent of beard, eventually does resurface on screen, and production resumes on his film-maudit-within-a-film, though that doesn’t stop him expressing his concern that his medium is dying.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Ruth has resumed her normal training sessions with the animal care team and has been in the outdoor habitat.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for resume
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Smith replied that private schools must submit renewal packets every year before they are approved to continue participation in the accounts program, and that the agency compares the new tuition rates against the older rates.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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Patients who tested positive for Covid-19 continued rapid antigen testing each day until the result was negative, so researchers could see how long the infection lasted.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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That's the general summary of the argument insider Robert Murray of FanSided made on Monday, when suggesting that the slugger could ditch Philadelphia for one of his former clubs.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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Both products can also provide summaries of text conversations in threads and channels.—
John Brandon,
PC Magazine,
9 Sep. 2025
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The first-person shooter was originally announced back in 2017 before being scrapped and restarted entirely in 2020.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some of those molecules get fed into the cell's metabolism, while others get built up into a five-carbon sugar again, restarting the cycle.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Breathwork Detox builds on this simplicity by guiding teams through rhythmic breathing patterns designed to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, often called the body's rest-and-digest mode.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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With the incident now fully resolved, Terminal 4 has reopened, and normal operations are resuming.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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Shrink dipped in 2020 as stores closed during the pandemic and customers shopped online — and then, as stores began reopening, retailers underestimated their shrink rate.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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That value is ironically and necessarily bound up with independence from government control, even as its realization depends on receiving enormous sums of government money.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg has invested large sums of money into Meta.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Resume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resume. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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