How to Use recapitalize in a Sentence

recapitalize

verb
  • Cyprus needed a bailout to recapitalize its lenders as well as to finance the government.
    — Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Repayment of these loans will recapitalize the fund.
    — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2026
  • That enables Vista to recapitalize, adding more debt, and then pay dividends to its investors, these people say.
    — Laura Cooper, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • Greece was also forced to sell off assets as a way to recapitalize its banks, resulting in a wave of privatizations.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Much of the project’s property was recapitalized earlier this year as part of a $93 million deal.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The surest way to make that happen is to recapitalize the company with new money rather than encumbering it with more obligations.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2019
  • But in the decades that followed, the army totally failed to recapitalize—or even significantly upgrade—any of these vehicles.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The icebreakers are part of a larger nationwide effort to recapitalize the Coast Guard with new vessels and aircraft.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2019
  • An ability to recapitalize banks remains crucial and must be explained to a skeptical Congress and public.
    — Glenn Hubbard, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The services are therefore choosing to address these changes by recapitalizing their infrastructure.
    — Charles Beames, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • After the financial crisis, the world’s major economies agreed on a plan to recapitalize sinking banks and stimulate their economies with fiscal and monetary support.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The authority wanted to accept the offer to recapitalize the agency, to the tune of $7 million, Halcro wrote.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Others received government assistance to remain afloat and need to recapitalize quickly.
    — Peter Boolkah, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • With the sale, Blue Apron was recapitalized as a Wonder subsidiary, making the warning irrelevant, the spokesman said.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The goal was to recapitalize its office portfolio and the next phase of development within the Harwood District.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The firm would likely be forced to recapitalize—raising money at a diluted rate, or go further by borrowing through a central bank’s discount lending facility.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Avelo said the restructuring will leave the budget airline, launched in 2021, recapitalized and in a cash position one of the strongest for airlines of its size.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • MoviePass™ worked hard to relaunch its groundbreaking subscription service and recapitalize the company.
    — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Now, although the recent rally has enabled the company to issue new stock and recapitalize its balance sheet, reducing some risk for shareholders, there are cheaper ways to play the fuel cell market.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The current strategy has been to essentially recapitalize it, though the all-powerful algorithm cannot be walled off from the Chinese headquarters.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Macy's, which also owns Bloomingdale's, has hired the investment bank Lazard to explore ways to recapitalize its finances, according to Reuters.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The new partnership will recapitalize a portfolio of buildings with 5,416 beds, according to a statement Friday.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The floating rate loan, which was provided by LoanCore, will provide funding to recapitalize the existing debt and continue to upgrade and improve the property.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2019
  • At least $60 billion of that money is intended to fund current combat activities and will largely not be available to increase force size, improve readiness, or recapitalize the services for the future.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • That plan called for modest yearly increases in the defense topline — not enough even to offset inflation, and nowhere near enough to recapitalize our forces, but the best Gates could get out of the Obama administration all the same.
    — Jim Talent, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Still, the airline said the French government agreed to convert a shareholder loan of €3 billion issued last year into perpetual hybrid bonds in order to recapitalize the carrier.
    — Benjamin Katz, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The next day, board members sought to recapitalize BuildDirect under a Canadian law that allows struggling businesses to restructure their finances.
    — Joann S. Lublin, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • Now, Gemini and other creditors have reached a deal with Genesis that will recapitalize the troubled lender while presumably allowing Earn customers to recover their funds.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 7 Feb. 2023
  • In late 2025, the company recapitalized its debt, leaving a private equity group with majority control; those investors from Story3 and Nexus now make up much of its board.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 May 2026
  • Pacific Elm will continue to lead the project’s development, while Sixth Street’s structured equity investment will recapitalize the tower.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 25 Mar. 2026

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