REACQUIRE Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

reacquire

verb

(ˌ)rē-ə-ˈkwī(-ə)r

Definition of reacquire

as in to regain

to get again in one's possession the hockey team is hoping to reacquire the Stanley Cup this year

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Recent Examples of reacquire The Bruins would probably need to reacquire their third-round pick to get into the offer-sheet game, but that could be an interesting route for a team that could use an influx of prime-aged talent. — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 30 June 2026 After three and a half seasons with the Twins, the Astros reacquired Correa at last year’s trade deadline. — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026 Making a trade This offseason, the Royals jumped at the chance to reacquire Strahm. — Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026 Mission controllers should reacquire communication with the astronauts. — Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reacquire

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But to regain his eligibility, Carter had to repay $427 that was provided for a plane ticket.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Surgery, called a prostatectomy, has a longer recovery time, and causes initial incontinence in nearly all patients; though most regain bladder control within a year, 5% to 10% can experience permanent incontinence.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of regain

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Engineers must decouple search-data integration from my formatting engine so that retrieving web information does not automatically trigger a mandatory text truncation.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Matson testified that Paul Robinson visited to the fraternity house two days after his son posted bail, then drove with Matson to retrieve the safe while his son packed at the fraternity house.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of retrieve

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As expected, the Commanders spent much of the offseason trying to recapture what worked two years ago.

— Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.

— George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of recapture

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With intermittent rain in the forecast over the next week, some sessions could be rescheduled or delayed for hours, corralling fans and shortening the time players have to recover for their next round.

— Aaron Short, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
The dangerous weather conditions — which included 20-knot winds and waves more than eight feet high — prohibited first responders from recovering five bodies that were also found on the vessel, officials said.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

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