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recuperate

[ri-koo-puh-reyt, -kyoo-] / rɪˈku pəˌreɪt, -ˈkju- /


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It forced him to take a break so he could recuperate at home.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

The 81-year-old singer has been advised by doctors to recuperate for the next four weeks following a coronary stent procedure.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Last month, he was moved to house arrest to recuperate after being hospitalized with bronchopneumonia.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

ABU DHABI—Changpeng Zhao, crypto’s richest man, flew home from a California jail a year ago to recuperate in a secluded neighborhood of $30 million villas on a white-sand island here.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 30, 2025

Huygens had always suffered from ill health, and although he was based in Paris for the next fifteen years, he twice had to return to Holland for lengthy periods to recuperate from sickness.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Once she recuperates, she plans to return to part-time consulting to keep her mind active and feel productive.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

The 30-year-old, who has not played since April, is not in England's latest training squad, which was announced on Monday, as he recuperates.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2023

Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, will be temporarily stepping away from day-to-day duties as he recuperates from an unspecified medical situation.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2023

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said he would ask the chamber this week to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve on the Judiciary Committee while she recuperates.

From Reuters Apr. 18, 2023

Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring.

From O Pioneers! by Willa Sibert Cather

While the dog recuperated, a woman arrived at the shelter later that day to report that her dog, Teddy, had been missing for more than a month.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

After Coronado recuperated, he marched east until the Spaniards encountered 12 Tiwa pueblos near present-day Albuquerque, N.M.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

The Americans turned the screw in the third quarter as Auston Matthews recuperated a loose puck and set up Jake Guentzel, who blasted past Sogaard.

From Barron's Feb. 14, 2026

"Injured seals, once recuperated, are released along this stretch of coastline," she says.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2025

By the week’s end the baby had recuperated, but Bibi was not asked to return downstairs.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Two California condors recovering from lead poisoning were briefly stranded this week after the fire engulfed the road to the Ventana Wildlife Society’s Discovery Center where they were recuperating.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

It was revealed the 74-year-old from Skewen, Wales, had been rushed to a hospital near her home in Faro, Portugal, on Wednesday for the procedure and was recuperating.

From BBC May 7, 2026

Barrett said losing both players in quick succession was a major blow and he felt disappointment for Cameron, who spent much of last season recuperating from a serious knee injury to his other leg.

From Barron's Feb. 21, 2026

Guenther washed one of the turtles — a red-eared slider — with a water bottle, and it was recuperating in a bathtub.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2025

Surgery and hospitalization account for six months of that year; the remainder he spent recuperating in the forest home, near Bellingham, of a young Indian logger and fisherman.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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