resumes 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of resume
as in continues
to begin again or return to after an interruption we resumed the game as soon as the rain had passed

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résumés

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noun

variants or resumes also resumés
plural of résumé
as in summaries
a short statement of the main points a book on the assassination that is in effect a résumé of all of the evidence that points to a conspiracy

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Recent Examples of resumes
Verb
When the surveillance footage resumes about an hour later, a man can be heard shouting, but the words are unintelligible, and a vehicle horn sounds. — Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026 After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumes Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 The latest version of the bill, which will be considered when the state legislature resumes its session next month, requires the state to list pesticides with PFAS in its public database. — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Passaic mayor Hector Lora said crews have been searching along a nine-mile stretch of the river that starts along the Passaic-Garfield border, down to Newark, and will focus on an area near Rutherford when the search resumes. — Christina Fan, CBS News, 30 July 2026 Gallup each year polls Americans about their views on the Supreme Court in July, after the end of the court's term, and in September, weeks before the court resumes hearing cases in October. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 28 July 2026 In Brand New Day, Peter resumes his duties as a friendly neighborhood superhero in New York City, but also remains dejected that MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) are moving on with their lives without any memory of his love and friendship. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 With no proceedings on July 28, Patrick Clancy is expected to return to the stand when the trial resumes on Wednesday, July 29. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 July 2026 His sentencing hearing resumes today as both sides present evidence before the judge determines whether Colt will spend the rest of his life in prison, with or without the possibility of parole. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
Noun
Mansour and Lopes Lara met as classmates at MIT, and with companies like Goldman Sachs, Palantir, Citadel, and Bridgewater Associates on their collective resumes, they were likely headed down lucrative careers in tech and finance. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 Yet most resumes and online profiles describe people almost entirely through employer names and titles. — Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 After six months of scouring job listings and sending off resumes, Dan Coda’s job search came to an end. — Sarah Jackson jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026 Two defensive prospects, Asher Barnett and Beau Akey, are building solid resumes that may involve significant minutes in important roles. — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 31 July 2026 Further, they will be carried by ships to other parts of the world when normalcy in maritime trade resumes. — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026 Experts advise graduates to reframe non-traditional experience, like class projects and volunteer work, on their resumes. — Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 28 July 2026 The ground is loaded with crop-harming salts, or in some areas prone to sinking if pumping resumes. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resumes
  1. continues
  2. summaries
  3. restarts
  4. digests
  5. reopens
Verb
  • There is no greater cautionary tale than Australia’s cane toads, whose now 200-million strong population continues to wreak havoc 91 years after being introduced to deal with the country’s cane beetle problem.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The episode picks up when Bret and Robert have their first tense interaction — their vaguely hostile and lightly homoerotic back-and-forth continues to be the highlight of the show for me.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of continues
Noun
  • These include monthly summaries involving blood pressure trends, sleep breathing quality and insulin resistance trends.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Magnet Forensics unveiled Magnet AI this spring, an engine that surfaces artifacts in seconds and writes investigative summaries from the evidence.
    — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of summaries
Verb
  • The real test will come if the district restarts the pilot and shows that the technology can support learning without putting student privacy at risk.
    — Jesse Watson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Marc restarts his revenue counter at zero every January and re-earns the year from scratch.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of restarts
Noun
  • This is because the fermentation process involved in making sourdough bread pre-digests, or breaks down, some of the wheat components—including gluten.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 29 May 2026
  • Momentum is firm and trending higher even as the price digests.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of digests
Verb
  • Over the weekend, Tehran’s national security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr issued a list of demands for the US to fulfill before Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Rather than being relegated to the scrap yard, the structure was placed into storage and is scheduled to go on public display when the London Museum reopens in November.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of reopens

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