REPOSSESSES Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

repossesses

verb

present tense third-person singular of repossess

as in retrieves

to get again in one's possession if you don't pay off the loan, the bank will come and repossess your car

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Six months later, an internal AI assistant retrieves the ticket and tells a different team what to do.

— Mani Padisetti, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
In the highlight, Marshall retrieves the ball and oddly fires it back to the infield, fooling no one.

— Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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The powertrain also recaptures waste energy; the ThermAssist heat management system boosts range by 7 percent and reduces the amount of energy needed to heat the car by 40 percent.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
Oh, there’s a pipe dream out there, all about a once-great player who recaptures the old magic, but that’s hardly the appropriate mood.

— Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026

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The Commanders now face the prospect of playing at least one game and probably more with Mariota, and perhaps another quarterback, while Daniels recovers.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
To be sure, Bespoke data shows the S & P 500 eventually recovers.

— Fred Imbert, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of recovers

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Traders should avoid this one until price reclaims the $270s, where the post-earnings gap began to fail.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
During the day, the menu reclaims fry bread, a dish with a knotty history among Indigenous groups, as they were forced to adapt to US government rations when forcibly displaced from their homes.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

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