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  • Now they're dying and then the air mass is going to what we call recover.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007 2007

  • Nicholson cited no medical authority for his opinion that veterans with PTSD can "recover."

    DISABLED VETERANS TAKING "FRIENDLY FIRE" 2005

  • Almost universally when predators begin to "hold down" prey populations, state agencies want to kill them so the targeted populations of moose, caribou, elk, deer, or whatever it might be can "recover."

    NewWest.Net All Headlines 2009

  • No forensic psychiatrist in the world can tell us a guy like Li will "recover."

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • That, in turn, means that the mortgages for all the suburban houses built during the bubble are worth less now then they were, and that prices will not "recover."

    Corrente 2008

  • Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan: country will overcome this and recover. @markmackinnon about 8 hours, 16 minutes ago

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Mark MacKinnon 2011

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