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If a dental practice underdelivers – classed as below 96% of the contract value – the NHS then recoups money from practices the following year.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

The index recoups some losses premarket, as Nasdaq futures gain 0.45%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

The RSN recoups that by charging cable distributors a licensing amount to carry their channel in as many places as possible.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2023

Soto said as he stepped through his mud-streaked living room to his patio, adding that he plans to rebuild, no matter what he recoups from insurance policies.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Afterwards a small assessment is levied on the villagers, of a 'pice' or two 'pice' each, about a halfpenny of our money, and which recoups the putwarree for his outlay.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James