phoenix

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phoe·nix / ˈfēniks/ • n. (in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. ∎  a person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect.PHRASES: rise like a phoenix from the ashes emerge renewed after apparent disaster or destruction.

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