REGAINED Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

regained

verb

past tense of regain

as in recaptured

to get again in one's possession our team regained the ball with just two minutes left on the clock

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Republicans stormed to their first majority in the House (54 seats net) in 40 years and recaptured the Senate with eight new seats there as well.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Russia occupied Izyum, where Fox said her brother settled, for six months in 2022, but Ukraine later recaptured it in a major counteroffensive.

— Garrett Haake, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026

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OpenAI said the model obtained non-public access and retrieved internal files, credentials and aggregate statistics, although individual patient or client records were not accessed.

— Lloyd Marino, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
In November 2025, Aydin performed the MRT procedure at the SAGA Clinic using fresh eggs retrieved from a donor flown in from Ukraine and fertilized with sperm from Wendy’s partner.

— Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026

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Michael was found dead the next day, his body recovered from brush along the banks of the Feather River.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Surveillance video recovered by the Daily News shows a scrap collector finding the black cloth case used to hold a musical instrument that contained Owusu’s body.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

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Trump won the state in 2016, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to carry Michigan since 1988, before former President Joe Biden reclaimed it in 2020.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2026
Democrats reclaimed control of both chambers of Congress, flipping seven Senate seats—including in Republican strongholds where the party had not won in decades.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026

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