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redeem

[ri-deem] / rɪˈdim /




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I didn’t realize that optimizing my travel points meant picking up a new hobby: constantly comparing prices on travel portals, which is where you redeem your credit-card points for plane tickets, hotels and experiences.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Play as Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, while the game’s credits roll, zapping the names of developers with her laser vision as they scroll past to score extra points you can redeem in the SuperShop.

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

Investors asked Apollo Global Management’s flagship private-credit fund to redeem 17% of its shares.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Individual investors requested to redeem about $12 billion from four large private-credit funds in the second quarter, up from $7.7 billion the previous quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 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

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

“Shadow Ticket’s” structure turns the current film adaptation of “Vineland” inside out — that would be “One Battle After Another,” whose thrilling middle more than redeems an only slightly off-key beginning and end.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2025

Civilization is a conditioned mediate tendency to perfection, to which religion is the final completion if carried out; it is the end of the second cycle expressed by the second formula, the Ens redeems existences.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

The famous Buddhist Angulimala Sutta tells a story of a serial killer who is redeemed by the Buddha and becomes a righteous monk.

From Slate Jul. 10, 2026

Open Standard said the new token can be minted and redeemed at no cost and earnings from Open USD’s reserves will be split among the coin’s adopters after covering operational costs.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Online retailers selling the physical edition have stated that, as with other digital game codes, the one being offered for GTA 6 is single-use and will become invalid after it is redeemed.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Lily decides to ostracize herself before eventually being saved — and redeemed — by the rest of the toys, but by then, it’s too late.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Once Social Security’s benefit payments exceed payroll-tax revenue — an issue that is now worrying lawmakers, workers and retirees — the Social Security Administration starts redeeming those bonds.

From MarketWatch May 2, 2026

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was once the darling of foreign diplomats, with legions of supporters at home and a reputation for redeeming Myanmar from a history of iron-fisted martial rule.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

The character doesn’t need any redeeming qualities for this particular film to remain entertaining.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2026

But it doesn’t take much to detect the pride he has in his son, whose work may not reliably pay the bills but has brought public recognition and a sense of redeeming purpose.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

Besides, I’m not offering food, and my ability to provide scraps has always been my main redeeming quality to him.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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