repossessing

present participle of repossess
as in retrieving
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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Recent Examples of repossessing His 2023 relief proposal relies on credits issued on Jackson County residents’ next three years of tax bills, which would rely on repossessing tax revenue that had already been dispersed to agencies and school districts. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026 Quavo and Saweetie would end up splitting a few months later in March 2021, which spurred speculation about Huncho possibly repossessing the car. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2025 While these cars may be all consumers can afford, banks aren’t interested in repossessing them because the vehicle’s value is less than its repossession and sale. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025 Penn complained, arguing the law prohibits repossessing a car with someone inside, and demanded $150,000 in compensation. — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • The researchers say the finding could eventually support new approaches to storing and retrieving quantum information.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Reading data from the cache is faster than retrieving it from main memory, and the agents used this timing difference to communicate.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • New London officials are eagerly endorsing Spinnaker Real Estate Partners’ proposal as a way to draw some of the thousands of new employees being hired by nearby Electric Boat while recapturing a stretch of attractive waterfront at the marina.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
  • As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.
    — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
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  • Dad alone of his siblings had joined my grandfather in reclaiming the Liu name back in China.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson’s path to reclaiming the governor’s mansion for Republicans almost certainly doesn’t run through Kansas City, Kansas.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • However, recovering their constituent materials at the required purity for reuse is technically challenging.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Osment plays a recovering alcoholic and social media influencer, with Kotcheff as Francis, who has abandoned her Amish community for Osment’s character, and Leder as the agoraphobic and heavily pregnant wannabe-actress Lillie.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026

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“Repossessing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repossessing. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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