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salvage

verb as in save, rescue

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The workers quietly and carefully tackle each room of the house while the garage has been turned into another cleaning zone where they box salvaged items.

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City were on their way to making it back-to-back wins in the Champions League this season but Dier's nerveless, last-minute penalty salvaged a draw for Monaco.

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Such a drastic and sudden change in his approach is probably a last-ditch move in order to salvage more time.

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All the plans, in their own very different ways, hope to salvage something out of the calamity that has befallen Gaza over the past two years.

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Crews salvaged much of the original structure but replaced the damaged section with fiber-reinforced polymer in the hope of making the span stronger and more resilient to its unforgiving environment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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