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reconquer

American  
[ree-kawng-ker] / riˈkɔŋ kər /

verb (used with object)

  • reconquers,
    present (3rd person singular)
  • reconquered,
    past participle,  past
  • reconquering
    present participle
  1. to conquer again.


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So how would I spend a mammoth bankroll of donor cash to reconquer our unruly, downwardly mobile American males?

From Slate May 21, 2025

In its statement on Sunday, it said: "All operations to reconquer the national territory are conducted with the greatest respect for human rights."

From BBC Nov. 11, 2024

Reconquista takes its name from the successful effort by Christian leaders to reconquer vast parts of the Iberian peninsula from its Islamic rulers and expel Muslims during the Middle Ages.

From Washington Times May 5, 2023

“I will fight to reconquer our identity, I will fight to regain our prosperity,” Mr. Zemmour told tens of thousands of supporters who waved a sea of French flags under a blazing sun.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2022

Having a giant at my side to help me reconquer Lyttyrboks.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

And England will sit snug while France reconquers Europe.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

He then reconquers his father’s kingdom and marries Rymenhild.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Still, many husbands know that nature often succeeds in rendering nugatory the most subtle calculations, and reconquers the rights which they have striven to frustrate.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

Owain Glyndŵr instigated a 15-year revolt against the rule of King Henry IV and claimed the title Prince of Wales, before Wales was reconquered by the English.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2025

The Biafran war ended in 1970, when Nigeria reconquered the breakaway region and expelled most of the European missionaries.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2023

The Safavid armies quickly reconquered Khorasan from the Uzbeks and moved on to Azerbaijan.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

Up north, the capital of Kyiv remains free, and the Ukrainian army has even reconquered some key neighborhoods and forced Russian troops further away from that beleaguered city.

From Salon Mar. 24, 2022

He told me that he had overthrown General Ffangg and reconquered Lyttyrboks with lightning speed—only to have been betrayed.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

H-2 was by all accounts obsessed with reconquering Mazatlán, a onetime B.L.O. bastion.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2022

“The cities of the world are reconquering their rivers,” said Anne Hidalgo, Paris mayor and the Socialist Party’s presidential candidate.

From Washington Post Dec. 29, 2021

The regime began reconquering opposition territory—and in January, 2018, it set its sights on Idlib province.

From The New Yorker Dec. 3, 2018

The tradition, which dates back to the 1300s, originates from a legend involving Christians reconquering the town under the cover of darkness and covered in moss to camouflage themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2013

After this Tiberius was occupied in reconquering the wide region between the Adriatic and the Danube, known as Illyricum, which occupied him three years, A.D. 7-9.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

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