as in to recapture
to get again in one's possession
our team regained the ball with just two minutes left on the clock
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Recent Examples of regain
The European Union is reportedly readying new trade deals with Latin America, part of efforts to regain the initiative after the bloc was slammed for making excessive concessions in an agreement with the US.
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Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For the nonprofits involved, including Climate United Fund, the ruling represents a major setback in their push to regain access to roughly $16 billion in frozen funds.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The goal of the agreement, for Kelley to eventually regain unsupervised parenting time, remained unchanged.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
These results suggest the wearable could play an important role in augmenting physical therapy for patients working to regain mobility.
—Mack Degeurin Aug 21, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
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Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
For the nonprofits involved, including Climate United Fund, the ruling represents a major setback in their push to regain access to roughly $16 billion in frozen funds.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The goal of the agreement, for Kelley to eventually regain unsupervised parenting time, remained unchanged.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
These results suggest the wearable could play an important role in augmenting physical therapy for patients working to regain mobility.
—Mack Degeurin Aug 21, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regain
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The team will be heading to Mexico, Canada and the United States to try and recapture the form and fervour of 2024, when James galvanised a nation, taking the squad to the World Cup quarter-finals.—
Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement The capture in Goa Given his previous experience with the criminal, Zende was assigned to lead the operation to recapture him.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The rocks Perseverance has spent years collecting are of high interest to NASA and the European Space Agency, which hopes to one day soon retrieve the samples and bring them back to Earth before humans themselves venture to the Red Planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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With the importance of clicks, impressions, bounce rates and other familiar metrics slipping, focus should instead shift to those that give insights into how machines retrieve data, evaluate it, and take action.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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An officer, named as Officer A in the latest release, was injured in the shootout and is currently recovering in the hospital.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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The rally ended with Nick Bosa pushing Seattle offensive tackle Abe Lucas into Darnold, forcing a fumble, which Bosa recovered.—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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As Platt reminds us, moving toward a healthier relationship with ownership means reclaiming our power by being intentional.—
Essence,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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The children of this era would go on to lead the next affective era in the form of the 1960s—which in many ways were a fight against this boredom, a call to reclaim the excitement of communalism, of revolution, of queerness and chaos.—
P.E. Moskowitz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Regain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regain. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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