recrudescence

noun

Definition of recrudescencenext
as in recurrence

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Recent Examples of recrudescence Who would benefit from the end of community fluoridation and a recrudescence of tooth decay? — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 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 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 This recrudescence of wolf warrior diplomacy is counterproductive and enables Japan to depict China as the bullying hegemon. — Jeff Kingston, Time, 30 Nov. 2025 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 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
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  1. recurrence
  2. renewal
  3. outbreak
Noun
  • Evert was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021 and then had a recurrence in 2022.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The jewelry designer and mother of two had a lumpectomy, underwent radiation and took Tamoxifen to reduce her risk of recurrence.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 30 June 2026
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  • Each of Pennsylvania’s 2,562 municipalities maintains its own license requirements, each with its own exam, experience requirements, and renewal cycle, and no reciprocity between them.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Allows the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue lifetime disabled parking permits, removing the current four-year renewal requirement, to people with a permanent dismemberment or an amputation (HB 961).
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
Definition of renewal
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  • The effective closure of the waterway after the outbreak of the war saw oil prices surge, fueling concerns about an energy shock that could feed into higher inflation across the globe.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • The healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments, threatening efforts to slow the outbreak that officials said continues to spread faster than the response.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of outbreak

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