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
  • Despite the return to normalcy, the Cubs announced several new policy changes to avoid a recurrence of the opening-day riot.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Surgical removal, for instance, has recurrence rates between 45 percent to 100 percent.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 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
  • Beirut tried to enact part of a plan to do so before the outbreak of the latest fighting.
    Sam Metz, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But those moves seem modest compared with the spike in freight futures, and the surge in BWET began even before the outbreak of war in the Middle East, with BWET up over 1,000% in the past year.
    Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026

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“Recrudescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/recrudescence. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.

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