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4 total sentences available.
[…] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths.[…]
Source: wiktionary
What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
Source: wiktionary
[W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
Source: wiktionary
We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include restore, compensate, pay back, reassign, reclaim.
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