recovers

present tense third-person singular of recover
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as in regains
to get again in one's possession after fishing around in the garbage for 10 minutes, I was able to recover my lost keys

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as in rebounds
to regain a former or normal state after a disastrous first half, the team was able to recover and pull off a victory

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as in recycles
to obtain (a raw material) by separating it from a by-product or waste product the process of recovering aluminum from old cans

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“Recovers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recovers. Accessed 28 Mar. 2023.

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