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• v  claim back
• v  reuse (materials from waste products)
• v  bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
• v  make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
  The people reclaimed the marshes
• v  overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
• s  delivered from danger

• Perhaps it's not surprising that a designer from a country that has been reclaimed from the sea would be interested in creating his works of offbeat beauty from reclaimed materials.
• Though it's hard to believe today, discount retailing was a controversial concept when it began to gain ground in the '50s at stores such as Ann Hope, which opened in a reclaimed .
• Concerned about dwindling resources, fine-jewelry designers are taking a shine to reclaimed gold.

• reclaim
• repossess
• recover
• reform
• regenerate
• rectify
• domesticate
• domesticize
• domesticise
• tame
• rescued

News & Articles

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• Elk brought from Kentucky are released in SW Va.
  VANSANT — Another group of elk is roaming a reclaimed strip mine in Southwest Virginia.
  June 16, 2013 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
• CT Man Win's Mount Washington Race
  Mountain runner Eric Blake of New Britain, Conn., has reclaimed the champion's title in a race up the road of Northeast's highest peak. Photo Credit: Rich Moffitt/Flickr
  June 16, 2013 - NBC Connecticut
• Connecticut man, Colorado woman win Mount Washington race
  PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. — Mountain runner Eric Blake of New Britain, Conn., has reclaimed the champion's title in a race up the road of Northeast's highest peak.
  June 16, 2013 - New Haven Register

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in Guardian Unlimited
  Anbar province, once considered a stronghold of al-Qaida, has been reclaimed for the Iraqi people,Gates said.
• President Bush in AFP
  Ron Artest added 20 points for the Lakers, who shot terribly while trailing for most of the first three-and-a-half quarters. Yet they reclaimed the lead midway through the fourth quarter and hung on with big shots from Pau Gasol and Artest. Well,... Ron Artest http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Artest&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG9Gm9sNmDu0LEiXPSmey81LwDXkA The Age http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theage.com.au/sport/basketball/lakers-win-nba-championship-20100618-ylmr.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFtU0T9XEwtMVdDxi54Xkmr20O-6g Jun 17, 2010 81126 108975 reclaimed Anbar has been transformed and reclaimed by the Iraqi people. This achievement is a credit to the courage of our troops, the Iraqi security forces, and the brave tribes and other civilians from Anbar who worked alongside them," Bush added.