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redeem

[ri-deem] / rɪˈdim /




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Blue Owl said it would redeem only 5%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

These vehicles allow investors to redeem shares quarterly — but usually only up to 5% of a fund’s assets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

It gives permission to mourn, to absorb the lessons of sharp grief, and to find ways to redefine ourselves and redeem the moment of loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Meanwhile, he told them their nation was destined to redeem mankind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

He went after it on his hands and knees, desperately trying to recover it and redeem himself, but he couldn’t get to it.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

And so the evening concludes with an explosion of emotion that redeems its flaws, and sends us reeling, shaken, into the night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

And he’s racked up plenty of points in the process that he redeems for vacations, including a recent winter holiday trip to the Caribbean that would have otherwise cost him thousands of dollars.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

But it’s Noble’s luminous way with Shakespeare, supported by an inspired company of redoubtable actresses, that redeems this production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Under these arrangements, companies or brokers buy forest land to preserve it, so that by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere the land redeems or "offsets" the planet-warming emissions produced by firms' other activities.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

He very seldom declined into the prettiness of Canova, and if he did not often approach the masculine strength which redeems the faults of Thorwaldsen, he more than once surpassed him even in that quality.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

But he redeemed himself somewhat by declaring that he had finally got a taste for villainy.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Bond yields reflect the current market prices of what the capital gains or losses will be when the bonds are redeemed at face value.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

It begins in vulnerability—a future cold day, redeemed by tonight’s memory—and ends in a plea that the beloved change nothing, prizing acceptance over perfection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In that way, I feel creatively redeemed on some level, just in my own journey between me, myself and I. But I feel ready to move on from the ‘Blade’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

After we redeemed the bottles or sold the scrap metal, we walked into town, to the drugstore next door to the Owl Club.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

What he likes about I-bonds versus, say Treasury inflation-protected securities, is that you don’t have to worry about redeeming at a particular maturity date.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

This only makes sense if it brings demonstrable advantages over the current way of issue, trading and redeeming assets, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It’s a fun concept—the machine taking on pesky tasks that offer no redeeming mental value—but there’s an important group standing in Big Tech’s way: Big Tech.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

I love to ask authors who write books, with characters who would widely be perceived as unlikable, what do you think are Mallory and Leo’s most redeeming qualities, and how did you empathize with them?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

If there’s anything redeeming about my mother that Aibileen left out of the letter, I want to know.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett


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