as in recovering
to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness
after a week without any relapses, it became clear that she would pull round eventually
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Koné will continue recovering from his fractured tibia and fibula.
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The 1980s, fortunately, brought with them a feminism committed to revisiting and recovering the literary canon of women writers.
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Oil prices, which skyrocketed for the first few months of the US-Israeli war with Iran, are now coming back down, closing a window of opportunity for Russia to use higher profits on its exports to close its widening budget deficit.
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State test scores for the 2025-26 school year are coming back, and Georgia public schools are part of a national pattern of declining reading and math skills.
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Pogačar is only improving as a rider, a scary proposition for man with his extraordinary palmares.
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Higgins also says that improving resilience will mean changing the city’s building code to allow innovative new technology.
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In 2009, after years of strained relations between SSPX and the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI remitted the 1988 excommunications as a step toward healing the rift.
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By contrast, bridge-building leadership works by healing divides.
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“Pulling round.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulling%20round. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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