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FOR a spell last year American banks seemed poised to reattain the sort of double-digit returns that have largely eluded them since the financial crisis.

From Economist • Jan. 21, 2016

It’s a goal I’ve been striving to reattain for the last eight years.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2014

In the previous two recessions, it took 32 months for nonfarm employment to reattain its June 1990 peak, and 48 months for it to reattain its January 2001 peak.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2012

Assuming the economy keeps adding nonfarm employment at the current rate, it will have taken 88 months to reattain its January 2008 peak.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2012

Sometimes a human soul is destined to animate a wild beast, never to be relieved until it reattain the purest of its first and best existence.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist