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Resurgent means literally a "rising again". We may speak of a resurgent baseball team, a resurgent steel industry, the resurgence of jogging, or a resurgence of violence in a war zone. Resurgence is particularly prominent in its Italian translation, risorgimento. In the 19th century, when the Italian peninsula consisted of a number of small independent states, a popular movement known as the Risorgimento managed to unify the peninsula and create the modern state of Italy in 1870.
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On Thursday, Scheifele had a goal and three assist as the recently resurgent Jets won their fourth in a row, blowing out the suddenly struggling Minnesota Wild 6-2.
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2026
At long last, the ACC is having a resurgent campaign.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
And in Chang's brave and patriotic mother, readers may also perceive a broader metaphor for China writ large, a country that has been smothered and surveilled by a resurgent party state under its top leader, Xi Jinping.
—Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
Although the Hurricanes’ football team commands most of the attention these days, there is buzz growing around the resurgent basketball program.
—Miami Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Resurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurgent. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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resurgent
adjective
re·sur·gent
-jənt 
: undergoing or tending to produce resurgence
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