as in to recapture
to get again in one's possession
our team regained the ball with just two minutes left on the clock
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Recent Examples of regain
The maneuvering would shift Issa’s district to a slightly Democratic-leaning one — and potentially help Democrats regain the majority in the House of Representatives.
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Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
Fogerty’s battles in and out of court over the years to try to regain control of his music were a frequent topic of the speeches during the event, not least of all his own.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
However, traditional contractors are also looking to regain their edge.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Turn into the skid - Turning into the skid can help the vehicle's tires realign to regain control.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
Fogerty’s battles in and out of court over the years to try to regain control of his music were a frequent topic of the speeches during the event, not least of all his own.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
However, traditional contractors are also looking to regain their edge.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Turn into the skid - Turning into the skid can help the vehicle's tires realign to regain control.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regain
Verb
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Conveniently flawed Yes, the carbon may be recaptured if trees regrow.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The irony is that, after a tough couple of decades, the package holiday sector had recaptured the imagination of investors once more.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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The rocks Perseverance has spent years collecting are of high interest to NASA and the European Space Agency, which hopes to one day soon retrieve the samples and bring them back to Earth before humans themselves venture to the Red Planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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With the importance of clicks, impressions, bounce rates and other familiar metrics slipping, focus should instead shift to those that give insights into how machines retrieve data, evaluate it, and take action.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to the World Meteorological Organization, the ozone layer is on track to recover to 1980 levels by 2040 globally, by 2045 in the Arctic, and by 2066 over Antarctica.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This ability to recover instantly gives the MAV a major advantage.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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As Platt reminds us, moving toward a healthier relationship with ownership means reclaiming our power by being intentional.—
Essence,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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The children of this era would go on to lead the next affective era in the form of the 1960s—which in many ways were a fight against this boredom, a call to reclaim the excitement of communalism, of revolution, of queerness and chaos.—
P.E. Moskowitz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Regain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regain. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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