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redemptive

[ri-demp-tiv] / rɪˈdɛmp tɪv /


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Three-time runner-up Justin Rose, who is jjoint fourth, is targeting his own redemptive win after losing to McIlroy in last year's sudden-death play-off and credits his own patience for his back-nine climb up the leaderboard.

From BBC Apr. 10, 2026

He understood, as he sang in “Ring of Fire,” that love could be painful as well as pleasant and that either way it was redemptive.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

“There’s this language of the discarded thing. The language of transformation and redemption. This all feels very redemptive to me.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2025

There is no way to make the social revolution America is experiencing painless, but it is still in our power to make it redemptive.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2025

And if every sadness, when it came, turned out at least to be redemptive in the end.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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