claw back

To get back something you had before, but it's really hard to do.

"The government plans to claw back billions in unpaid taxes from offshore accounts."

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and it's hard to claw back.

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So physicists were eager to claw back at least some

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to try to claw back the money that the Orban

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at this level is very difficult to claw back from.

Traveling to Japan's Wildest Island

Aidin Robbins · 11:09

help me to claw back my information from all the creeps.

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