as in to retrieve
to get again in one's possession
the distraught owner cried that she would do anything to get back her lost dog
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Recent Examples of get back
Now, the pressure was on Green Bay to get back to scoring, and Love was up for the task.
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Heading into Week 2, Baltimore will look to get back on track with a matchup against the AFC North rival Cleveland Browns.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
The Royals need to string together some wins just to get back into the playoff race.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Green Bay, by the way, is getting back-to-back home games.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
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Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Heading into Week 2, Baltimore will look to get back on track with a matchup against the AFC North rival Cleveland Browns.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
The Royals need to string together some wins just to get back into the playoff race.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Green Bay, by the way, is getting back-to-back home games.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for get back
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The rocks Perseverance has spent years collecting are of high interest to NASA and the European Space Agency, which hopes to one day soon retrieve the samples and bring them back to Earth before humans themselves venture to the Red Planet.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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With the importance of clicks, impressions, bounce rates and other familiar metrics slipping, focus should instead shift to those that give insights into how machines retrieve data, evaluate it, and take action.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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When the game is at its most intense, these timeouts can be used as moments to catch a breath and regain focus.—
Jay Feldstein,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Turn into the skid - Turning into the skid can help the vehicle's tires realign to regain control.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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Conveniently flawed Yes, the carbon may be recaptured if trees regrow.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The irony is that, after a tough couple of decades, the package holiday sector had recaptured the imagination of investors once more.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to the World Meteorological Organization, the ozone layer is on track to recover to 1980 levels by 2040 globally, by 2045 in the Arctic, and by 2066 over Antarctica.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This ability to recover instantly gives the MAV a major advantage.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Get back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/get%20back. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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