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restore

[ri-stawr, -stohr] / rɪˈstɔr, -ˈstoʊr /




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The impact of the outage on oil prices will depend on how fast Saudi Arabia is able to restore flows.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

It comes down to trying to restore credibility in getting to the 2% Fed inflation target, said Moran of Wellington Management, “and are we wiling to take some of the medicine of cooling the economy?”

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Their collections are more than garments and pieces of fabric; they are reflections of the people who seek them out, restore them and make them their own.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

That raises the possibility that the compound could eventually be used to increase bone strength or help restore bone that has already been weakened.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

Once they reached the citadel, they were to restore its defunct pulley system so that their future comings and goings would not be dependent on flight.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Refertilization occurs when magma restores chemical components to mantle rock that previously lost them during partial melting.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

It restores Douglass to a living continuum of dissent rather than isolating him as an exceptional voice, and it underscores how fully the Fourth of July once accommodated, even invited, fierce moral criticism from within.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Cristian Axle Sánchez Ruiz restores a relic at in a church in Tancitaro, which bills itself as Avocado Capital of the World.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

Whether this shift restores trust in polling or further erodes it will depend less on the technology itself than on how it is used, explained and regulated.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

By the time Celia restores a tenuous calm, she has come to a decision.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

A restored wetland in Cheshire is now home to almost two-thirds of the UK's breeding black-necked grebes, one of the country's rarest breeding birds.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

When the power is restored, the cry rings out across the city: "It's back!"

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Boston Scientific has restored its manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping operations after a disruption by last month’s cyberattack.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Boston Scientific has restored its manufacturing, order fulfillment and shipping operations after a disruption by a cyberattack last month.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The discovery of his daughter restored his former joviality and the pleasure of being with her was slowly leading him away from dissipation.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It has the effect of restoring the primacy of aesthetics over politics when looking at gorgeous art.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

I love taking something that’s been neglected and restoring it and then using it so it’s not just forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

"I can't believe banks would leave the UK just because we are restoring the surcharge to where it was in 2023. Bank share prices have risen faster here than in New York," he said.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

That fits nicely with an aging population increasingly focused on restoring lost facial volume, as evidenced by recent sales growth of 12% in its injectable-aesthetics business.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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