as in to retrieve
to get again in one's possession
if you don't pay off the loan, the bank will come and repossess your car
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Recent Examples of repossess
During the past year, at the same time medical instruments were being repossessed from the system’s hospitals endangering the lives of patients, Steward’s independent board members received payments for their board service of between $253k – $326k.
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Mark Rogers, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2024
Tennessee is a non judicial foreclosure state, which means that the mortgage holder does not need to go through the courts to repossess a property and auction it off.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
William Daugherty: The Del Valle middle school teacher's car was repossessed during his cancer treatments.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Dec. 2024
After months of making only partial payments on his car last year, the credit union repossessed his vehicle in July, and Daugherty spent months taking Uber, often a $60 trip.
—Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
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Mark Rogers, Boston Herald, 17 Aug. 2024
Tennessee is a non judicial foreclosure state, which means that the mortgage holder does not need to go through the courts to repossess a property and auction it off.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
William Daugherty: The Del Valle middle school teacher's car was repossessed during his cancer treatments.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Dec. 2024
After months of making only partial payments on his car last year, the credit union repossessed his vehicle in July, and Daugherty spent months taking Uber, often a $60 trip.
—Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repossess
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Finally, after half a dozen or so tries, the Zaida crew retrieved a towline.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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This content was summarized by generative artificial intelligence using public filings retrieved from SEC.gov.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Jan. 2025
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School lobbyist Hugo Arza said the city is regaining access to the recreational center’s courts, the existing courts and the library.Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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Johns briefly regains the No. 1 ranking after this event, but by mid-summer Staksrud is firmly entrenched atop the standings.Todd Boss, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle in the body horror film, a celebrity who is fired from her job because of her age and goes to extreme lengths to recapture her youth.Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
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If the most important metric is providing Ukraine with the means to recapture all of its sovereign territory, Biden’s policy was a partial failure.Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
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President-elect Donald J. Trump’s suggestion on Tuesday that the United States might reclaim the Panama Canal — potentially by force — unsettled Panamanians, who used to live with the presence of the U.S. military in the canal zone and were invaded by American forces once before.Annie Correal, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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President-elect Donald Trump is prepared to use the U.S. military to reclaim the Panama Canal and take Greenland.Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Jan. 2025
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Like many department stores in recent years, Kohl’s has spent the last few years in turmoil and has struggled to recover from shifting consumer behavior.Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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Meghan McCain slams Meghan Markle's new 'out of touch' TV show: 'Do something to help people instead of your ego' Production delays in an industry still recovering from the 2023 SAG-WGA strikes are only the tip of the iceberg.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Repossess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repossess. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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