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redress

[ree-dres, ri-dres, ri-dres] / ˈri drɛs, rɪˈdrɛs, rɪˈdrɛs /




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A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Martin Boyd, from the charity, says that since the Grenfell fire, it has become clear that "the law is still stacked against the leaseholders who have a limited means of redress for building defects".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The health minister said victims "have had to wait far too long for a response", adding that he had pressed the then minister responsible for patient safety for movement on financial redress.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

To redress this pardonable oversight, Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson take us on a guided tour of “The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Many and more of the matters brought before her involved redress.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“Across the Ages,” the first truly comprehensive Celtic art survey in the U.S., redresses that long-standing prejudice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

A bedrock principle of our legal system is that the federal judiciary adjudicates and redresses actual harms to real people.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

The scene of her happily gabbing away in her car with a bedraggled but game hippie hitchhiker she’s picked up before the two women share an affectionate goodbye hug redresses the balance considerably.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

Her curator Ian Alteveer, for one, is focused on the art of Kerry James Marshall, a prominent figurative painter from Birmingham, Ala., whose work redresses the absence of black subjects in Western art.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2015

Cutaneous and ophthalmic affections are of course common, and typhus fever now and then redresses the balance in Malthusian fashion by reducing the crowd.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

“I felt that there was a balance that needed to be redressed in some ways, that people weren’t getting the full story,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

While this puts constraints on the ability of states to regulate corporations, power imbalances between business and society can be redressed when people withdraw the support on which corporate entities depend.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

Rogue Machine has taken strides to diversify its programming, but a persistent gender gap in playwriting signals a problem that will have to be redressed by Cienfuegos and his team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

In 2005, the historical situation was redressed, when South Korea paid direct compensation to tens of thousands of wartime laborers.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Finally they redressed him in his raggedy clothing.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

That dragged total exports down by a total 7.3% on year, with other markets redressing some of the American drag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

"The sculptures unveiled in 2023 have not made a large contribution to redressing the balance of people celebrated in public art," said Art UK.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

“There is a trend towards redressing wrongs, telling untold stories, exposing truths, revealing hypocrisies,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

She added that “members of Congress have ample means, short of suing in federal court, for redressing official-capacity harms” like a denial of a request under the 1928 law.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

She points to her wound, which is oozy, and clearly needs redressing.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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