redux

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 11, 2023 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>redux</strong> &#149; \ree-DUKS\&nbsp; &#149; <em>adjective</em><br /> <p><em>Redux</em> is an adjective that means “brought back,” and it is usually used to describe an event or situation that closely resembles something from the past. <em>Redux</em> is always used <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postpositively">postpostively</a>, that is, after the word or phrase it describes.</p> <p>// Following a spell of unseasonably warm weather in late May, early June felt like spring <em>redux</em> as the region experienced a series of cool, rainy days.</p> <p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redux">See the entry ></a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>“The seismic shift in our economic structure—a world of tech oligarchs with oceans of uber-serfs driving their gig economy—is feudalism <em>redux</em>, according to Joel Kotkin, whose next book is called ‘The New Feudalism: The Coming Global Return to the Middle Ages.’ ‘Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism,’ Kotkin wrote on his website.” — Petula Dvorak, <em>The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News</em>, 31 Dec. 2021</p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p>In English, <em>redux</em> describes things that have been brought back—metaphorically, that is. For example, if the relationship between two nations resembles that of the United States and the Soviet Union in the late 20th century, one might call the situation a “Cold War redux.” But a dog brought back home after running away would likely not be called “Buddy redux” going forward. The Latin <em>redux</em> did historic