reattained

verb

past tense of reattain
as in took over

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  1. took over
  2. occupied
  3. annexed
  4. recaptured
Verb
  • Manuel took over for Dave Brandon, a Domino’s Pizza executive who alienated a lot of Michigan fans with his slick marketing schemes.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Northrop’s SpaceLogistics division took over the commercial portion of the program the following year and completed development of the spacecraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
Definition of took over
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  • Set in occupied Poland in the middle of the Second World War, Holoubek’s tour de force is part suspenseful western, part gritty wartime noir.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 July 2026
  • Biotechnology has always occupied a unique position on Wall Street.
    — Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of occupied
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  • According to Russia’s defense ministry, Russian forces overnight struck down 133 Ukrainian drones over Russia, the Black Sea and Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow forcibly annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
  • Both the Mexican government and public are highly sensitive to interference from a neighbor that annexed more than half their territory in the 1800s.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Definition of annexed
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  • Bamse and one other individual were recaptured and assessed after a month and found to still be chlamydia-free.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
  • China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country’s space program, state media said.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of recaptured
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