Get back and Save

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Get back verb - To get again in one's possession.

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Save and get back are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Save" instead a verb "Get back".

Save verb - To free from the penalties or consequences of sin.

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Get back and save are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Get back" instead a verb "Save".

Nearby Words: saving, saved, saver

The Ninth Doctor had one of these in "The Parting of the Ways", when he forcibly sends Rose back to her own time in the TARDIS to protect her from the Daleks, only for her to absorb the power of the Time Vortex itself to get back and save him.

Source: My God What Have I Done / Live-Action TV
In Life on Mars, Sam abandons the team and wakes up only to change his mind and commit suicide to get back, save everyone and kiss Annie

Source: Your Universe or Mine?
Because Walter Prime won't help him get back so he goes to beg Walternate - who previously tried to destroy our universe in an attempt to save his own - for help.

Source: Stab the Scorpion

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