as in recovery
the act or process of getting something back
pumped water out of the field as part of the land reclamation program designed to provide farmers with more farmland
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Recent Examples of reclamation
The development also plans to build an on-site water reclamation plant and use computerized systems to control irrigation based on the weather.
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Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Next Sunday sets up as a matchup between Canales reclamation projects new and old.
—Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But McCauley says no public education dollars were used for any of the school’s agricultural or coal mine reclamation projects.
—Chris Papst, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2024
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the league’s reclamation efforts, although baseball concedes that the task will probably take years to complete.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Next Sunday sets up as a matchup between Canales reclamation projects new and old.
—Joseph Person, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
But McCauley says no public education dollars were used for any of the school’s agricultural or coal mine reclamation projects.
—Chris Papst, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2024
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the league’s reclamation efforts, although baseball concedes that the task will probably take years to complete.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reclamation
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Your employees will lose traction on key priorities, focusing instead on damage control and recovery, instead of new product development.Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Year-on-year, the quarterly numbers still show a decline of 2 percent (compared with the third quarter of 2023), but recovery must start somewhere.Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 18 Dec. 2024
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The facility, local police and federal health officials said the animals posed no risk to the public but warned people to stay away as to avoid agitating the creatures, which would make their recapture more difficult.David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
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The rest would go to the state’s coffers to get redistributed to other Texas schools through a program called recapture.Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Aug. 2024
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These embeddings enable LLMs to capture the semantics of text, supporting tasks like semantic search, text classification and similarity comparisons for efficient data processing and retrieval.Yuriy Gnatyuk, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Support chatbots came next, at 31%, followed by enterprise search and retrieval, data extraction and transformation, and meeting summarization.Hayden Field, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Reclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reclamation. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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