RETAKING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

retaking

verb

present participle of retake

as in recapturing

to get again in one's possession after some fierce fighting, government forces have retaken the capital

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Recent Examples of retaking Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss is the starter, retaking the role held temporarily last season by current Missouri QB Simmons (who transferred to the Tigers in the offseason). — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2026 The government had announced on Sunday the lofty goal of retaking all Houthi territory — home to most of Yemen's population, and much of it held for more than a decade. — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026 Democrats have seized upon AI safety to boost their chances of retaking congressional control in the midterms. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Baseball coach Josh Lienhard, girls soccer coach Eric Choi and tennis coach Jason Grider all ended up retaking the class. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Democrats are given better odds of retaking the House, where Republicans hold a narrow six-vote edge in the 435-seat chamber. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026 Trump restricted things more during his first term, and then again upon retaking the White House in 2025. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026 The conflict ended in June with an Argentine surrender and the British retaking control of the island. — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Nowhere are the lines dividing Democrats more clearly drawn than in Michigan, a state that the party must win to have any real chance of retaking the Senate majority in November. — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 29 July 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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Text messages indicate Moore’s representative had initiated the process of retrieving his belongings in the hours after his arrest, and the school was quick to oblige.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Research from Bartholdi and Hackman found that most order-picking time goes to movement and searching—traveling alone accounts for about 55%—while only around 10% is spent actually retrieving the item.

— Ben Hussey, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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