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reacquire

British  
/ ˌriːəˈkwaɪə /

verb

  1. to get or gain (something) again which one has owned

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Google previously spent $2.7 billion in September 2024 to reacquire Shazeer via his startup, Character.AI.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Strikingly, goannas are the only known lizard lineage to reacquire osteoderms after losing them.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

It is a habit that England don't want to reacquire.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

The company, which owns 56 of the United States’ highest-grossing amphitheaters, has to divest 13 of those stages, release them from their exclusive Ticketmaster contracts, and agree never to reacquire them.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2026

"If the comm system goes out during ascent, the time it takes to reacquire will be too long to do any good. The backups don't help us."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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