salvage
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Over the past few days, in an attempt to salvage the obviously empty Board of Peace agreement, Kushner traveled to Egypt, along with his fellow board member and former U.K.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Desperate for any advantage, the Night Court’s Inner Circle must scatter far and wide to face emerging past enemies and salvage Prythian’s fragile peace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
By daybreak, residents were returning to their damaged homes to salvage some belongings before they collapsed completely.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He could salvage his reputation following his infamous vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He could, in short, live a little bit.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
The race caller, collecting himself and trying to salvage something out of the ruined afternoon, cheerily announced that the winning jockey, Nick Wall of Stagehand fame, was “an East Boston boy!”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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“Destitute of all comfort and company,” he salvages what he can from the wreckage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
He also salvages fallen street trees or storm-damaged wood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
His celebrated merchant posters, made from local advertisements that he salvages from his neighborhood and then effaces so that multiple layers surface simultaneously, tell a history of predation via something as commonplace as payday-loan advertisements.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Baltimore’s Recreation and Parks Department salvages wood from city trees and redirects it to Camp Small, a city-run processing facility, where it’s used in city construction or sold to residents.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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That door was so damaged that it couldn't be salvaged, Cardoso said, so it was replicated.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Residents had laid out mattresses, washing machines, wooden furniture, and other salvaged household items.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Not that the script could have been salvaged by better acting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Stand-in captain Charlie Dean and 18-year-old debutant Tilly Corteen-Coleman salvaged a tense one-wicket victory from an underwhelming overall performance to ensure England's summer began with a win in the first-one day international against New Zealand.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was set to address European leaders on Saturday as they try to step up their autonomy in defence while salvaging transatlantic ties badly strained under President Donald Trump.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
"Their aim has to be salvaging the season by qualifying for the Champions League with a top-four or perhaps top-five finish - but that's a big drop-off from what we saw last season," added Shearer.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: I think anyone who cares about salvaging American democracy needs to be asking those exact questions.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
That included salvaging an oil alliance known as OPEC+, and the so-called Abraham Accords to normalize Israeli-Arab relations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
Dad was too stubborn to shut it down, even though it cost him more to have his foreman salvaging than it would have cost him to cut the iron with torches.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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