recovering

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Even after he coughed up his lead in the third set, he attempted to spend some time recovering by tanking the fourth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

"We get this fear from the United States. People were just recovering from last time, when it all began again in January," she said, referring to Trump's declarations for the US to "own" Greenland.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

“Consumer climate has, at least for the moment, ended its downward trend and is recovering somewhat this month,” said Rolf Buerkl, head of the survey at NIM.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

But the group's European production capacity will be cut by 20 percent, where it is banking on partnerships to revive sales in a market still recovering from the Covid pandemic plunge in new car sales.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Finally, small human populations are also susceptible to nonfatal infections against which we don’t develop immunity, with the result that the same person can become reinfected after recovering.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond