corrective

Example Sentences

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What they saw functioned as a needed corrective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

"ZDF had already added a corrective transparency notice to the broadcast on Saturday."

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

That’s a necessary corrective, according to some Republicans.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

And this is a really useful corrective to the notion that every single time there’s smoke, there’s fire.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

Public Allies was meant as a corrective to this, a means of widening the horizon for young people thinking about careers.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama