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noun

recovery

CEFR B1

return to an original state

In a sentence

Six example sentences with recovery, each labelled with its topic.

  • Employment climbed for eleven straight months, and by spring economists agreed the recovery was finally reaching smaller towns.

    Economics

  • Two easy days of recovery after a hard interval session leave the legs ready instead of merely tired.

    Fitness

  • Ten years after the spill, the recovery of the marsh is visible in the crabs and the nesting herons.

    Environment

  • The market's recovery took four years, and the index only regained its old peak in the spring of the fifth.

    Finance

  • The team's recovery from a 2-10 start was complete by March, when they sat second in the conference.

    Basketball

  • After the outage, full recovery took nine hours because the backups had to be restored one database at a time.

    Technology

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