reconquer

American

[ree-kawng-ker] / riˈkɔŋ kər /

verb (used with object)

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

The whole Vietnamese people, animated by a common purpose, are determined to fight to the bitter end against any attempt by the French colonialists to reconquer the country.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

“Now they think I’m crazy! I thought you wanted humans to come help you reconquer your planet! You could’ve had two more!”

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

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

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

A hundred years later, 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 ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

This three-part ensemble represented a Syria made by millennia of inhabitation, conquered and reconquered by empires and dynasties.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2020

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

These creatures are how the Targaryens conquered the Seven Kingdoms in the first place, so there’s certainly some precedent for reconquering it with them.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2019

Justinian was intent on reconquering the western empire from the Germanic kings that had taken over.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

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

It was indeed not likely that he would entirely renounce the hope of reconquering Italy, but he saw the impossibility of doing so at present.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn

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