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were retaken
verb
To take something again
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Photographs were retaken in 2006 at all the 2005 locations and at selected 68 landslide locations in 2007.
A few minutes later, the children were gone and the hallways were retaken by grim-faced grown-ups — handing out tricks and treats of a different sort.
Penalty kicks were retaken in regulation and again during the shootout as the referee strictly interpreted soccer's equivalent of jaywalking — rules that are clearly stated but often ignored.
In December parts of Fallujah and Ramadi - both former al-Qaida strongholds - were retaken by the group, which has ever since deterred Iraqi forces from trying to re-enter the cities and maintained a withering insurgency in the nearby countryside.
Trump's claim of capturing 20,000 square miles is technically correct, but under Obama, all Iraqi cities (with the exception of the western half of Mosul) held by ISIS — such as eastern Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi and Tikrit — were retaken by end of his term, as was much of the northeastern strip of Syria along the Turkish border.
Parts of Lower Austria on both sides of the Danube were lost temporarily; after they were retaken, they became the so-called Neumark (New March), which for some time enjoyed independence as did the Bohemian March to the north of the Babenberg territories.
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'It has not been retaken.
In 2018, Raqqa may be retaken.
With Venetian aid, the island was retaken two years later.
Ramadi was retaken by Iraqi forces in December.
Both "controlled assessments" and exams will be retaken.
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