Brought back and Kept

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Kept is an antonym for brought back in topics: replaced, restored.

Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.

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Brought back is an antonym for kept.

After the show was brought back after 2+ years on hiatus, the writers seemed to have kept this element.

Source: Running Gagged
The second and third times were real; he just kept getting brought back to life, one time as a gargoyle.

Source: Web Animation / Walrusguy
The way she was brought back was not much friendlier, basically kept in a jar with her brain exposed to be used to control the same villains' new advanced dimension-hopping machine.

Source: Put on a Bus to Hell

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