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  • adjective Having been reclaimed.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reclaim.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective delivered from danger

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Examples

  • Featuring fabric reclaimed from the seat upholstery of underground tubes and buses, the shoes immortalize fifty years and ten lines of London public transit.

    Alexandra Kain | Inhabitat 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from stilloutoffocus wrote 1 year 7 hours ago here in southern indiana we have strip mining. the pits now being reclaimed is actually where i hunt and fish most of the year. but what i understand about mountain top removal its a different process all together. and most of the habitat ive heard about is golf courses.

    Mountain top removal...The View 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from stilloutoffocus wrote 1 year 7 hours ago here in southern indiana we have strip mining. the pits now being reclaimed is actually where i hunt and fish most of the year. but what i understand about mountain top removal its a different process all together. and most of the habitat ive heard about is golf courses.

    Mountain top removal...The View 2009

  • Since Sarah Palin reclaimed feminism for conservative women with her mama grizzlies, record numbers of Republican women are running for political office and challenging traditional ideas of what female candidates should look like, how they should campaign and who may vote for them.

    Female Politicians Break Out, Try New Tactics 2010

  • Also check out Reclaimed Design, a beautiful modern room staged with pieces entirely reclaimed from the Los Angeles Times classifieds and reinvented by a bevy of talented Dwell-picked designers.

    Dwell on Design 2009 is This Month! | Inhabitat 2009

  • If "postmodern" can no longer be reclaimed from the school of cultural analysis I have described, however, I would rather discard it altogether, since I don't think metafiction, or experimental fiction more broadly, has much to do with that kind of politically-motivated criticism.

    Postmodernism 2010

  • I can easily overlook the occasional infelicity ( 'bloodcurdling cry' or 'It had to be a trick of the light') for such delights as '... a soft gray cardigan she had reclaimed from the rubbish after Peggy pronounced a verdict of moth.'

    The limits of competence L. Lee Lowe 2008

  • University of California, San Diego student Anthony Fu compares samples of bio-diesel fuel reclaimed from the school?

    Going green registers with colleges 2008

  • I can easily overlook the occasional infelicity ( 'bloodcurdling cry' or 'It had to be a trick of the light') for such delights as '... a soft gray cardigan she had reclaimed from the rubbish after Peggy pronounced a verdict of moth.'

    Archive 2008-07-01 L. Lee Lowe 2008

  • Its folk-rock patriarch Paul Kelly brought younger stars, John Butler and Missy Higgins, out to join him for “From Little Things Big Things Grow,” a Dylan-style chronicle of land reclaimed from the British.

    Live Earth: Earnest Crooners and a “Supersonic Speed Machine” in Australia, China and Japan - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

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