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I used to say that, as a stroke recoverer, I believed in celebrating normality and the active life, as far as possible.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2017

Our country has a reputation for being a late starter in wars�military, economic or propaganda�but a quick recoverer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accident, the great discoverer and recoverer of lost goods, at last restored to us these good little children.

From The Ground-Ash by Mitford, Mary Russell

For, for the recoverer of her favourite she had no words, and scarce a look.

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John

Petrarch, as is evinced by his letters, was the most assiduous recoverer and restorer of ancient MSS. that had yet existed.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John