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Recent Examples of recycle
Wooden floors are recycled from a 19th-century Heineken factory.
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Mark Lamster
architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
Silky and quiet, the 10-denier nylon (100 percent recycled) proved durable enough to resist snags or rips over two years of heavy use in Colorado’s high peaks.
—Kelly Bastone, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research and develop technologies to recycle spent nuclear reactor fuel and has awarded them a $19 million purse.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
Posterity had largely accepted her grandfather’s move as a wartime necessity, said Ole Wæver, director of the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts at the University of Copenhagen, but ‘necessity’ can be hard to disprove and therefore easy to recycle.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
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Mark Lamster
architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
Silky and quiet, the 10-denier nylon (100 percent recycled) proved durable enough to resist snags or rips over two years of heavy use in Colorado’s high peaks.
—Kelly Bastone, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
The Office of Nuclear Energy has selected five companies in the US to research and develop technologies to recycle spent nuclear reactor fuel and has awarded them a $19 million purse.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
Posterity had largely accepted her grandfather’s move as a wartime necessity, said Ole Wæver, director of the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts at the University of Copenhagen, but ‘necessity’ can be hard to disprove and therefore easy to recycle.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recycle
recover
Verb
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Kyrie Irving has yet to play this season while recovering from ACL surgery and Dereck Lively II was limited to just seven games before his third season was abruptly ended because of right foot surgery.—
Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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According to Yun, researchers might someday tweak human stem cells to emulate the axolotl and recover thymus function.—
Taylor Mitchell Brown,
Scientific American,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Recycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recycle. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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