recoup
to regain or recover something lost, especially money
Recoup in a sentence
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It took the company three years to recoup its initial investment.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
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