as in regains
to get again in one's possession
the hockey team is hoping to reacquire the Stanley Cup this year
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If the system retrieves academic papers, responses might become more formal.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025 -
Tamsin, matter-of-fact, pulls on her dress and retrieves her swimsuit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Perhaps one of them emerges as the prolific goalscorer that a Premier League title-winning Chelsea team likely needs, or perhaps Maresca can create a collective alchemy that recaptures the peculiar magic of that City team in 2020-21.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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But unless the ball rolls out of the end zone, the play is live until somebody recovers the ball, as the referee explained on the microphone after the play.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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This approach recovers as much as 80% of the original capacity.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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