recrudescence

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Recent Examples of recrudescence This recrudescence of wolf warrior diplomacy is counterproductive and enables Japan to depict China as the bullying hegemon. Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025 Who would benefit from the end of community fluoridation and a recrudescence of tooth decay? Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 Although the most powerful nations, including the U.S., have made intermittently successful efforts to stem the loss of tax revenue to offshore shelters, Abrahamian identifies these dynamics as the recrudescence of colonial extraction. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 With that comes the prerogative to employ medieval cruelties – recrudescences from pre-modern empire redeployed in the present. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 The coverage of Italy’s recent elections in the American press has portrayed the success of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party as a sudden and dangerous recrudescence of Italy’s fascist past. Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022 This is also evident in the recrudescence of the Little House on the Prairie look for younger women, a style that has historically been a favorite among the chronically abstinent. Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020 All this will lead to a recrudescence of interesting political theory. The Economist, 19 June 2019 Only this wise, collegial institution prevents a recrudescence of World War II. Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recrudescence
Noun
  • But for the younger women, mastectomy was not superior to breast-conserving surgery in terms of overall survival or cancer recurrence.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 1 May 2026
  • In the long term, increasing fiber intake reduces the risk of hemorrhoid recurrence, Qureshi said.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Under the existing schedule, renewal paperwork was not due until 2028 at the earliest.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The eight licenses in question aren’t due for renewal for years.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Around 150 tourists were onboard the ship at the time of the outbreak, South Africa’s health department said.
    Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • The fur trade brought smallpox to the Pacific Northwest—including a particularly devastating outbreak in 1862—but also metal axes, chisels, and adzes, which displaced carving tools made of stone.
    Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026

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“Recrudescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recrudescence. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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