1
as in regains
to get again in one's possession
tried to recoup the $1,000 he had when he walked into the casino by risking his last dollar on a slot machine
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as in compensates
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury
you will have to submit the proper paperwork before the insurance company will recoup you for the damage to your vehicle
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3
as in recovers
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness
he's recouping at home after a bout of the flu
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A little over half of that burden will hit farmers directly in the form of falling retail prices, SBI said, unless the government compensates for the loss.—
Sriram Iyer, executive editor, CNBC-TV18,
CNBC,
7 Aug. 2025 -
The compliance inherent to the finger effectively compensates for the inaccuracies in human actuation, leading to robust behavior.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
18 Feb. 2022
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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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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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Medicaid reimburses up to $125 for a home-health visit from a skilled nurse, or about $200 per day of hospice care, Pentzer said, while a day in the hospital costs an average of about $3,000.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Sep. 2025
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Medicare reimburses ambulance rides for dialysis when patients have a medical need for assistance.—
Ge Bai,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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If the system retrieves academic papers, responses might become more formal.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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Tamsin, matter-of-fact, pulls on her dress and retrieves her swimsuit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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What To Know Within the results showing Americans' new tilt toward wanting the war to end quickly whether Ukraine reclaims lost territory or not, there is a divide along party lines.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Gabrielle Nadig, DaCosta, and Thompson herself, HEDDA emerges as both homage and reinvention—an exploration of desire and destruction that reclaims a timeless character for a new generation.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Recoups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recoups. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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