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recoverable

adjective as in reparable

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“The rare earths story is, at best, a decade away from producing anything of commercial value—assuming the resources are even technically recoverable, which is far from certain,” wrote Johnson in a Tuesday report.

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The White House estimates $53 billion in recoverable resources from critical mineral projects under the new agreement.

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“It’s the public policy of Texas that the recoverable oil and gas in the state’s reservoirs be recovered because it is in the public interest.”

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The team at EDF suspect that the satellite has lost power and said in a statement "that it is likely not recoverable."

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The present is always understood as an impending catastrophe in which white people will be killed en masse or “utterly submerged,” but there’s no discoverable or recoverable past moment when the fear was absent.

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

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