reacquire
Britishverb
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By contrast, President-elect Donald Trump is talking about trying to reacquire the Panama Canal.
From Salon
Among the recipients were the Hoopa Valley Tribe, which received funding to help reacquire about 10,300 acres of their lands in the Klamath River watershed that were formerly being managed by a timber trust.
From Los Angeles Times
Talks with Pat Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, are on hold because he now leads Spirit Aerosystems — the company that made the faulty part on the ill-fated Alaska Airlines plane, and which Boeing wants to reacquire, The Journal reports.
From New York Times
Last month, to get control of the quality of its MAX fuselages, Boeing announced its intent to reacquire Spirit, which Boeing divested two decades ago in an ill-fated effort to outsource costs.
From Seattle Times
The Kraken really need to reacquire some fan interest that fell off a cliff this spring.
From Seattle Times
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