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
First one, then another discovered the secret, until she couldn’t get to the snares fast enough to salvage any food.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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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
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
“Of course, she’s at least going to make it to the finish. This could just be the medal that salvages everything after all. Right now I just feel like a joke.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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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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
On the hillside above the shop is an open-air lunch area, its seating made from wooden bleachers salvaged from the old right-field pavilion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
On the stage, to the left, are those who are to be salvaged: two Handmaids, one Wife.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
All that mattered was salvaging the film and making absolutely sure this wouldn’t happen again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Mediators tasked with salvaging the struggling initiative requested ten more days to deliver their conclusions, the French government said this week after reports suggesting the effort had failed to bear fruit.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 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
The unstinting efforts of this office in persuading Muggles that all photographic evidence of the Loch Ness kelpie is fake have gone some way to salvaging a situation that at one time looked exceedingly dangerous.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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