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redemptive

[ri-demp-tiv] / rɪˈdɛmp tɪv /


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That arc—and its thematic concern with the relationship-rending pressures of commercial success—replays itself here through the plot’s time-traveling machinations, but this time it’s given a happier ending, a redemptive lesson in the value of friendship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

“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

Adoption among these organizations is still talked of as a being a redemptive choice.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

He observed the fragility of confidence and the redemptive power of trust.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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