salvage
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When Hurts dropped back to pass on third down, attempting to salvage the game, he was stripped by linebacker Byron Young, who tallied 2.5 sacks in the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Their experiments showed that MDS stem cells depend strongly on the NAD salvage pathway, a recycling process that helps cells maintain their supply of NAD.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The dispute has put the 65-year-old youth sports partnership in jeopardy, and forced league officials to scramble to salvage Sunday’s scheduled games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Thidarat Silsuwan, who lives alone in her partially submerged house along the Premprachakorn canal, said she did not want to go to a shelter as she worked to clean up and salvage her belongings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
As if she were one of the boss men who came down to watch the work and paid out cash bonus for good salvage.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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“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
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“Are we actually helping our patients live a little longer? Or are we just delaying something that potentially can still be salvaged with immunotherapy at the time of recurrence,” Tachiki said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Recovered impressively through the field to fourth and ensured Ferrari salvaged a huge result from a strategy that initially looked disastrous.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Her home of salvaged wood was still standing after the storm but the tin roofs had been blown off the kitchen and bedroom.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 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
Dri gave him the meat John had salvaged from JoJo’s vomit.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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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
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
But testing this theory would involve salvaging the submarine's wreckage, a multimillion-dollar operation, according to plaintiffs.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
"Their aim has to be salvaging the season by qualifying for the Champions League with a top-four or perhaps top-five finish - but that's a big drop-off from what we saw last season," added Shearer.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
There still existed an opportunity for salvaging the expedition, however.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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