resurfacing

Definition of resurfacingnext
present participle of resurface
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Verb
  • Arena ads made up the vast majority of all gambling references in all of the games, appearing once every 11 seconds on average.
    Luke Connors, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
  • The Rachofskys, for their part, are mainstays on the annual ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, appearing on it each edition since 2002.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • However, there is no definitive national ranking from 2013 showing Los Angeles and New York City tied as the safest big cities in the country.
    James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Fourth, epidemiologists suspect that hantavirus is most contagious when an infected person is showing symptoms, whereas SARS-CoV-2 can readily be transmitted by seemingly healthy people.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • The tight timeline puts a lot of pressure on the Artemis III lander testing mission, as well as the uncrewed tests proposed for SpaceX and Blue Origin, with funding for the latter coming out of the companies’ own pockets.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 May 2026
  • That eased some of the concern coming out of Game 2, when Thompson was one of Buffalo’s worst players.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • But conversations at the inaugural Association for Enterprise Opportunity State of Small Business Summit suggested something more complicated is unfolding.
    Natalie Madeira Cofield, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • What’s happening in Fort Worth The Parker County purchase is unfolding while Black Mountain’s $10 billion data center project in southeast Fort Worth runs into steady community pushback.
    Emily Holshouser. Produced with AI assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • Indigenous peoples in the area have been coming there for 1000s of years to soak and take advantage of the waters, and so there’s been a hotel or some manner of resort there since the late eighteen hundreds, welcoming people to come and take the waters and relax and enjoy.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 15 May 2026
  • Plus, coming so close and the disappointment (of third) fueled my fire more.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • The humans would explore — surfacing hypotheses, chasing hunches, venturing into territory the data didn’t obviously support.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • Influencers have played a role in surfacing candidates’ liabilities.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • The national debt has surpassed the GDP, Social Security and Medicare face looming financial crises, inflation is rising, families are struggling — and yet Congress does nothing.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2026
  • Increasingly problematic for Musk, the looming fallout between OpenAI and Apple suggests their allegiance is not that deep.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Her Avalon pair gave Cannes a more subtle version of a slouchy boot shape that has been turning up in more dramatic form this spring.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
  • Venus in Cancer is turning up the romance, creativity and passion in your life.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
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“Resurfacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resurfacing. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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