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salvage

[sal-vij] / ˈsæl vɪdʒ /


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The US Open was meant to salvage Sabalenka's season - but she must now regroup as she adjusts to her position as world number two.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

How Anna Wintour’s quest to salvage John Galliano’s legacy was thwarted.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Over the past few days, in an attempt to salvage the obviously empty Board of Peace agreement, Kushner traveled to Egypt, along with his fellow board member and former U.K.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

By daybreak, residents were returning to their damaged homes to salvage some belongings before they collapsed completely.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

This conversation hasn’t gone the way I imagined it would, but I’m doing my best to salvage what’s left of it.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“Destitute of all comfort and company,” he salvages what he can from the wreckage.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

His celebrated merchant posters, made from local advertisements that he salvages from his neighborhood and then effaces so that multiple layers surface simultaneously, tell a history of predation via something as commonplace as payday-loan advertisements.

From New York Times Apr. 19, 2023

Baltimore’s Recreation and Parks Department salvages wood from city trees and redirects it to Camp Small, a city-run processing facility, where it’s used in city construction or sold to residents.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2022

Holland eventually chooses to use his power for Good, and not for Evil, and in doing so salvages the sacrosanct purity and moral reputation of Marvel superheroes.

From Salon May 5, 2022

He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In “Scattered Steel” these authors track the metal salvaged from the approximately 1.8 million tons of wreckage at Ground Zero.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The good news is that when new ownership takes over of organizations, companies and properties, they can often be salvaged.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Since the late 1960s, Saar has transformed washboards, dolls, clocks, family photographs, racist memorabilia and other salvaged materials into emotionally charged assemblages now held in the permanent collections of more than 60 museums.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Residents had laid out mattresses, washing machines, wooden furniture, and other salvaged household items.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Out of sticks, palm fronds, salvaged shoes, glittery jewelry, two suitcase wheels, and evening gown scraps, Taylor had built a found- object beauty queen sculpture upon which she placed a scrawled sign for a sash.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

On Wednesday, firefighters were salvaging what they could from the structure, and the cause of the blaze was under investigation, according to the Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

"Timely intervention and salvaging the oil tanker is of essence to prevent worse," Zwijnenburg said.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Over the past few years, individual investors have coalesced into a market-moving force, upending hedge-fund bets, salvaging struggling companies and sending favored stocks straight to the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Realistically, they need victories in at least four of their final five matches to have any chance of salvaging a place in Friday's last four - and they began that quest well.

From BBC Feb. 16, 2026

“Reyna and I did a quest there about a year ago. We were salvaging Imperial gold weapons from the C.S.S. Hunley.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan




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