as in reclamation
the act or process of getting something back
an account of France's loss of the Louisiana Territory to Spain and its brief repossession of the area before selling it to the U.S. in 1803
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Recent Examples of repossession
With the average monthly car payment racing past $750, auto loan delinquencies, defaults and repossessions have also increased in recent months.
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Danni Santana, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
As the article noted, auto repossessions this year are the highest since 2009.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Although the financial stress on subprime car borrowers has stabilized in 2025 after large increases in late payments and repossessions over the past two years, economists fear what might happen if the labor market grows considerably weaker and layoffs become more common.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Although recovery ratios have fallen in recent years—potentially lowering the number of actual repossessions—it is projected that over three million cars could be repossessed in 2025, a level only reached in 2009 during the Great Recession.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 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
The growing costs to buy and maintain a car –exacerbated by inflation and tariffs –are leading to rising auto loan defaults and repossessions and a potential crisis for American consumers left unprotected by the federal government, according to a new report by a consumer advocacy organization.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Danni Santana, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
As the article noted, auto repossessions this year are the highest since 2009.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Although the financial stress on subprime car borrowers has stabilized in 2025 after large increases in late payments and repossessions over the past two years, economists fear what might happen if the labor market grows considerably weaker and layoffs become more common.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Although recovery ratios have fallen in recent years—potentially lowering the number of actual repossessions—it is projected that over three million cars could be repossessed in 2025, a level only reached in 2009 during the Great Recession.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 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
The growing costs to buy and maintain a car –exacerbated by inflation and tariffs –are leading to rising auto loan defaults and repossessions and a potential crisis for American consumers left unprotected by the federal government, according to a new report by a consumer advocacy organization.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repossession
Noun
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Healing, if not wholeness, is found through acts of reclamation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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This is what makes Monaleo’s reclamation of BAP all the more epic and incredible.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With the various boons, his administration might have also created the condition for a boom in enhanced oil recovery, similar to the earlier one in fracking.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The city has been working to restore and reopen the park and its buildings since the floods and received a $1 million donation from the Tosa Foundation to aid in recovery efforts.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Repossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repossession. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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