salvage
Example Sentences
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As the front-runner in four more events, the cheese-powered human rocket from Wisconsin could salvage these Games for the U.S. by single-handedly winning as many golds as the rest of the nation.
However the data was salvaged, the fact remains: Google and other security-camera makers such as Arlo and Ring have access to your videos—sometimes after you don’t.
“Destitute of all comfort and company,” he salvages what he can from the wreckage.
At Selah, he made a point of showing visitors that his fences were made of old telephone poles, salvaged cable and eye bolts bought secondhand in bulk for 5 cents a pound.
The suit said that after Ospraie took over, pension officials learned Verdantf had concealed risks and setbacks on the renewable fuels project and used MERS’ money to salvage its founders’ personal investments.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.