GETTING BACK Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

getting back

verb

present participle of get back

as in retrieving

to get again in one's possession the distraught owner cried that she would do anything to get back her lost dog

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Recent Examples of getting back But both styles required a grueling lifestyle of waking up at 4 in the morning (and sometimes earlier) to head out onto the water for a day of work, and getting back in the afternoon, utterly exhausted. — John Anglim, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2026 The Bulldogs control their own path to getting back to Atlanta. — Connor Riley, AJC.com, 11 Nov. 2026 Former President Joe Biden has always talked about his life through grief and getting back up. — Lars Hanson, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026 For the first time in more than a decade, Starbucks is getting back into the holiday music business. — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2026 Passengers who were set to sail on the cruise will receive a full refund and will be assisted in getting back home, according to MSC. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026 There was a far greater degree of comfort offense, getting back to more pick-and-roll and dribble handoffs. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026 Another plan for 2027 is Sanuk getting back into brick-and-mortar. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026 Both Seeman and Hill will sit out immediately without pay before getting back on the field. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for getting back

Verb

About a month after Jontay began betting on FanDuel, according to Cardenas, PayPal notified the company that Jontay owed half a million dollars in overdrawn deposits, and asked for help retrieving the funds.

— New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
The researchers say the finding could eventually support new approaches to storing and retrieving quantum information.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of retrieving

Verb

New London officials are eagerly endorsing Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ proposal as a way to draw some of the thousands of new employees being hired by nearby Electric Boat while recapturing a stretch of attractive waterfront at the marina.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of recapturing

Verb

However, recovering their constituent materials at the required purity for reuse is technically challenging.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Osment plays a recovering alcoholic and social media influencer, with Kotcheff as Francis, who has abandoned her Amish community for Osment’s character, and Leder as the agoraphobic and heavily pregnant wannabe-actress Lillie.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026