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redress

[ree-dres, ri-dres, ri-dres] / ˈri drɛs, rɪˈdrɛs, rɪˈdrɛs /




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A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

She said there had to be "tough questions about resilience of Nats systems", adding: "We also need to think about consumer redress issues."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The health minister said victims "have had to wait far too long for a response", adding that he had pressed the then minister responsible for patient safety for movement on financial redress.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

To redress this pardonable oversight, Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson take us on a guided tour of “The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It was Carl’s heart that was now in question, whether he wanted to redress a wrong his own mother had perpetrated.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

“Across the Ages,” the first truly comprehensive Celtic art survey in the U.S., redresses that long-standing prejudice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

A bedrock principle of our legal system is that the federal judiciary adjudicates and redresses actual harms to real people.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

Her curator Ian Alteveer, for one, is focused on the art of Kerry James Marshall, a prominent figurative painter from Birmingham, Ala., whose work redresses the absence of black subjects in Western art.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2015

Still, Stehlin redresses many of the play's shortcomings in this production, which may lack a certain bite, but which still nibbles the funny bone -- and takes an occasional nip at the heartstrings as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2015

Having become the master, he redresses wrongs, and especially those of which he thinks himself the object.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand

He recognizes what must be redressed, but he refuses to lose his sense of humor in the struggle or exempt himself from the human comedy that may be the only reliable equal opportunity employer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024

While this puts constraints on the ability of states to regulate corporations, power imbalances between business and society can be redressed when people withdraw the support on which corporate entities depend.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

In 2005, the historical situation was redressed, when South Korea paid direct compensation to tens of thousands of wartime laborers.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Third, their injury would not be redressed by a court ruling in their favor.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2022

Westley asked question after question while the albino tended and redressed his wound, then fed him food that was warm and surprisingly good and plentiful.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Those from the Renaissance to the 19th century have been brought into the canon, redressing centuries of neglect, while once well-known female artists of the past whose reputations faded are again highly visible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In 2023, it took a step towards redressing the past by formally recognizing the trade union movement – collectively, and for the first time – as a victim of Colombia's conflict.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

“There is a trend towards redressing wrongs, telling untold stories, exposing truths, revealing hypocrisies,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

The referendum was framed as a first step toward redressing major historical wrongs.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

She points to her wound, which is oozy, and clearly needs redressing.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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