given back
Example Sentences
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On the flip side, AI software firm C3.ai has given back all its gains after the 2023 excitement that propelled it to an almost fivefold gain in six months.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
The shares have now given back their entire 21% gain from Feb. 27, the day Paramount announced its deal to buy Warner Bros.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
At one point, guns being kept in the residence were taken by police and later given back when someone living there petitioned for them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
In the Stoke store's first three months in 2024, it saw about 330,000 visitors and had given back about £165,000 to small businesses that it worked with in that period.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
What I would not have given, back in Baltimore, for a line of officers, agents of my country and my community, patrolling my route to school!
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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