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Justinian’s ambitions also extended to reconquering the West.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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

Before the war, no Power, European or American, would have countenanced France in any attempt to break peace to run her chance of reconquering Alsace and Lorraine.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges