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  • verb Present participle of recapture.

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Examples

  • Legislatures and executives should begin recapturing their lost powers, or we should find new legislators and executives to restore constitutional balance.

    November 2003 2003

  • But I have hope that it will aid us in recapturing social flexibility, in regaining that great gift to each succeeding generation -- opportunity, a gift that once was the promise of the frontier.

    The Structure of Success in America 1995

  • But I have hope that it will aid us in recapturing social flexibility, in regaining that great gift to each succeeding generation -- opportunity, a gift that once was the promise of the frontier.

    The Great Sorting 1995

  • But I have hope that it will aid us in recapturing social flexibility, in regaining that great gift to each succeeding generation — opportunity, a gift that once was the promise of the frontier.

    Education for a Classless Society 1969

  • But I have hope that it will aid us in recapturing social flexibility, in regaining that great gift to each succeeding generation -- opportunity, a gift that once was the promise of the frontier.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • But I have hope that it will aid us in recapturing social flexibility, in regaining that great gift to each succeeding generation — opportunity, a gift that once was the promise of the frontier.

    Education for a Classless Society 1940

  • NCL bought the S.S. United States several years ago with the idea of recapturing some of that glamour and putting the ship back in service, offering cruises around Hawaii.

    Famed Liner Steers Clear of Scrapyard Jesse Pesta 2010

  • But I was also obsessed with the idea of recapturing what I had, a wife who loved me, a good mother for Katie.

    Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009

  • CHURCHILL WAS CONSUMED by the idea of recapturing Narvik.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • "It didn't get into my mind," Clijsters said about the idea of recapturing the top spot.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARK MEADOWS 2011

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