REACQUIRING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

reacquiring

verb

present participle of reacquire

as in retrieving

to get again in one's possession the hockey team is hoping to reacquire the Stanley Cup this year

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Coupled with low-energy methods for storing and retrieving this data, and thermodynamically favorable ways of running specialized calculations, the future of computing is starting to look pleasantly cold and wet.

— Mike McRae September 22, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
Matson hiding the safe and assisting Paul in retrieving it from the woods.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of retrieving

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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

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Hawaii residents are still recovering from Hurricane Lala, which produced heavy rain and winds strong enough to sweep about 100 homes off their foundations on the Big Island.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Circ’s technology is designed to separate polycotton into its component materials, recovering cellulose from cotton and PTA and MEG, the building blocks of polyester, from the polyester component.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

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Put differently, nature is reclaiming Shift, which has long been a ruin in the making.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
By harnessing these tools, many clinicians report saving an hour per day on documentation, reducing after-hours work and reclaiming their personal time.

— Sameer Bhat, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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