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- verb Present participle of
resuscitate .
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Examples
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And then there's the startling ease with which amending the route of an Uptown parade rushes through when compared to the never-ending bitch fight involved in resuscitating the Mid-City route for just one damn parade.
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Only after several years did Gerard succeed in resuscitating the talks.
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He said the meeting agreed amongst others that the government must look at "resuscitating" AsgiSA projects such as the N8 Development
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We make jewelry from "resuscitating" unused vintage components from jewelry companies of decades past as well as other clever sustainable materials such as peach pit beads, for example.
Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism 2008
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In Newcastle, which boasts the pioneering Institute of Transplantation, scientists are working on "resuscitating" donor lungs that have been damaged.
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Daimler AG has decided to discontinue its Maybach ultra-luxury cars after failing to find a fix for their dwindling sales and lack of profitability, barely a decade after resuscitating the Maybach brand.
Daimler to Scrap Its Maybach Luxury Cars Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011
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They will snipe and gripe that resuscitating a comic-book letters page in an era of Big Social Media is an exercise in futility, a practice as pointless as Clark Kent attempting to write a great piece of journalistic prose.
The Riff: Why DC Comics is right to bring back the letters columns of yore Michael Cavna 2011
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From Chinatown to Fifth Avenue, whether they are rescuing kidnapped children or resuscitating an ancient Empress at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Irregulars have a knack for finding trouble, and putting it out of its misery.
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All of the kids talk at the same time in a preteen cacophony that almost amounts to an alien tongue: Their grown-up director, Mr. Abrams, turns out to be as much of a whiz at handling youngsters and comedy as he was at resuscitating the "Star Trek" franchise a couple of summers ago.
'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills Joe Morgenstern 2011
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I'm resuscitating my beloved tin cachepot from the '80s and working it with some loose jasmine.
The Soul Man of Interiors Sara Ruffin Costello 2011
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