How to Use reacquire in a Sentence

reacquire

verb
  • The Astros reacquired Verlander on Tuesday from the Mets for a pair of top prospects.
    Larry Fleisher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The business model is, studios are spending the same money to reacquire the customer over and over.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The killing was deliberate; the gunman had to pause to reacquire his target.
    Tom Rogan, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Kelly was reacquired exactly three years to the day of the pouty face incident.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For years, Disney didn’t have the rights to Oswald, but since reacquiring him in 2006 he’s been brought back into the Disney fold.
    Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
  • It’s been just a month since the Dodgers reacquired him, but the move already has resurrected his career.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • It was reacquired by co-founder Stacy Spikes roughly a year later.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2024
  • Cuban admitted his mistake when the Mavs reacquired Chandler in the summer of ‘14, but there was no fixing it then.
    Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For only $3 million, the White Sox are reacquiring Elvis Andrus.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • They also were prompted to reacquire Nottingham, who now is in limbo again.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2021
  • Boeing is getting close to reacquiring the supplier who built the 737 Max 9 fuselage that lost a door plug mid-flight earlier this year.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 June 2024
  • If Tom clears waivers, he must be offered back to Cleveland and can be outrighted to the minors only if Cleveland decides not to reacquire him.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2021
  • First, because of rules that prevent teams from using players’ salaries in trades with a wink-wink agreement to reacquire, the Heat cannot acquire Goran directly from the Raptors.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Boeing is in talks to reacquire Spirit, the companies confirmed, which would be something of a homecoming.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The lawsuit contends that Paramount, which produced and distributed the sequel, did not reacquire those rights before releasing the film in May.
    Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 7 June 2022
  • In one of her first moves, Ms. Haaland streamlined the process for Native American tribes to reacquire public lands from the federal government.
    New York Times, 2 June 2021
  • Levin was recently able to reach an agreement to reacquire the furniture company brand out of bankruptcy.
    cleveland, 3 July 2020
  • But reacquiring full-time status on the big tour seems to be well within his grasp: The consecutive victories have pushed his standing from seventh to second on the Korn Ferry Tour’s points list.
    The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2024
  • Originally sold in 2012, it was reacquired by Tesla after it was involved in an accident.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 May 2024
  • Kennedy and her successors also managed to reacquire, through purchases and donations, a few of Monroe’s Bellangé pieces, and today several of them are the prize furnishings of the Blue Room.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The state also needs to keep developing strategies to help Native American tribes reacquire and manage their ancestral lands, O’Shea said.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Celtics president of basketball operations sacrificed a first-round pick to reacquire Horford — and dump the salary of Kemba Walker — and the move could pay major dividends.
    BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
  • In 2005, after the Henson family had sold and reacquired the company, the Henson Alternative brand was launched; since then, this label has served as an umbrella for more mature content.
    Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • Twitter account will automatically reacquire its Eye of Sauron–like powers.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Kansas City just reacquired speedy receiver Mecole Hardman, giving Mahomes another target.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, many service organizations drove programs to reacquire as much excess inventory in their existing service networks to ward off potential supply chain disruptions.
    Amit Jain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021

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