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  • adjective Capable of being regained.

Etymologies

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regain +‎ -able

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Examples

  • As a 7 year old child in the 60s, seeing JFK represent your country, its positivity and its capability (which I might add has long since gone but regainable) as a nation with VALUES, we would like to remind you that the rest of the world needs Obama PDQ.

    NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity' 2008

  • It was done incrementally with a series of repressive acts destroying civil liberties, human rights and the fundamental freedoms guaranteed all Americans by the Constitution and Bill of Rights - now in suspension and effectively null and void unless a Democrat Congress acts responsibly to restore them along with their honor and integrity lost but regainable in part if meaningful action is undertaken straight away.

    Democrat Agenda Omissions 2007

  • It was done incrementally with a series of repressive acts destroying civil liberties, human rights and the fundamental freedoms guaranteed all Americans by the Constitution and Bill of Rights - now in suspension and effectively null and void unless a Democrat Congress acts responsibly to restore them along with their honor and integrity lost but regainable in part if meaningful action is undertaken straight away.

    Democrat Agenda Omissions 2007

  • Your liberty of choice has simply destroyed for you so much life and strength, never regainable.

    Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 Charles Wesley Emerson 1872

  • Is a value stored inside a union supposed to be bitwise regainable? rbk posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 2: 50 AM

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • To regain the un-regainable would be Kauto Star's grandest feat, and one deserving of a monument.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • To regain the un-regainable would be Kauto Star's grandest feat, and one deserving of a monument.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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