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remedy

[rem-i-dee] / ˈrɛm ɪ di /




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The home secretary will set out the legal steps she will take to remedy this.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

The lasting remedy came with the development of two vaccines in the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

When the opera company requested the Kennedy Center remedy the issue, center officials asked to sever ties.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Six months on there are "no more, but no less" people out at night, said one young woman hawking sachets of hangover remedy.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Nevertheless, at her parents’ insistence, he concocted some lilac-colored sugar pills, which he prescribed with the warning that they were a Siberian remedy for deaf-mutes.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

And Johns Hopkins has launched a three-year program to research remedies, including waivers in the case of long-established doctor-patient relationships.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Employees must first exhaust their administrative remedies at an agency that cannot decide their case.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

A further trial is also scheduled for October this year to determine the consequences of any actionable breaches and any issues relating to damages or other remedies.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

As schools across the nation search for remedies, one of the most closely watched efforts is playing out in Tennessee.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

But it was clear that his remedies were the same that she had learned in her years with Alys.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

The resulting racing inefficiencies can be remedied with market designs that slow the pace of trading, but more accurate clocks will not solve the underlying problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Much to the astronauts' relief, Koch remedied the issue with the toilet aboard Orion -- "I'm proud to call myself the space plumber," she said during a Q&A session late Thursday with US media.

From Barron's Apr. 4, 2026

Every single person in that room revealed that they had dense breasts, which we thought could be remedied somehow through self-massage.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

"This situation must be remedied – not by going 'further and faster' - but by recognising and fixing the clear and destructive weaknesses in your government's approach," she wrote.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

She insulted and encouraged, pushed and poked, brewed and stewed and remedied.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

The resolution also emphasised that reparation claims "represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs against Africans and people of African descent".

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

The iOS 26.4 update improved keyboard accuracy by remedying the ghost-letter problem, but autocorrect issues persist.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 2026

“This has been one of the holy grails of remedying the Korean discount, and there’s at least a 50-50 chance of it passing this year,” he says.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

Over the summer, California’s Reparations Task Force called for repealing such laws in its recommendations for remedying the legacies of slavery and more modern government-sanctioned policies that discriminated against Black residents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2023

Fizz is prone to remedying me and would invariably seek the answer to my “problem.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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