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Being reclaimed
verb
To return land to a suitable condition for use.
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Two Western analysts with military experience told VICE News that an amphibious assault of the kind being discussed — launched from the sea, with the port city then being reclaimed street by street — would be a deeply complex operation only the U.S. military could undertake with any guarantee of success.
Due to population pressure, natural swamps within valley bottoms in these three study areas are being reclaimed for crop cultivation by digging open water drains.
This graph from the government of Alberta's own website shows how much of the oil sands is "disturbed" and how little of the land is "certified reclaimed" or in the process of being reclaimed.
But more obscure animal stories are being reclaimed.
But the mainstream is being reclaimed by its former stars.
It is these buildings that are now being reclaimed.
Now they are being reclaimed, and many are undergoing renovation.
The design, by Stéphane Roy, evokes a grand theater slowly being reclaimed by a ravaging jungle.
The rest of the town is buried: a modern Pompeii slowly being reclaimed by the mountain.
After decades of blight, large swathes of Detroit are being reclaimed by nature.
There Florence meets her, only to discover Nazrah being reclaimed by her husband.
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