recapture
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Then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government sent a naval task force to recapture them.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
“We can never recapture the purchasing power of the dollar that has been lost,” the chairman admonished his colleagues in August 1955—even as the consumer-price index registered a rare, small year-over-year decline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Taxing those values allows cities to recapture some of the gains created by their own policies.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
“This includes meaningfully reducing capacity growth, with a downward bias until the fuel environment improves, and moving quickly to recapture higher fuel costs.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
What began as a dramatically delusory ploy to recapture her father’s attention turned into a sad tarantella of girlish desperation.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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