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remediate

[ri-mee-dee-eyt] / rɪˈmi diˌeɪt /


VERB
remove, as pollutants
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The same is true for those trying to remediate unsafe buildings.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The company doesn’t have a plan to remediate indirect water consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

"We are looking at environmental disasters like oil spills, and identifying ways to remediate them in faster, greener and more sustainable ways," Oran said.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

“We have each had to find out what is the best route to test and remediate, but without standardization and consistency, we are a giant experiment.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

Cordelia's agonised invocation and summons to the unpublished forces of nature, to be aidant and remediate to the good man's distress, is continually echoed by the poet, but with a broader application.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

It added, “The rush to complete the project led to hasty and botched work that was not remediated before the project was finished and the fencing removed.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The plan also pledges that by 2029, all buildings 36ft or above with unsafe cladding will either have been remediated, have a date for completion, or the landlords will be liable for severe penalties.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

The Los Angeles Times collected soil samples in March 2025 and published the first evidence that already remediated home sites retained elevated levels of toxic substances.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

As explained by Suraj Samtani, a clinical psychologist with the University of New South Wales, dementia symptoms can be remediated through an immersion in the places—and among the people—of one’s early life.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

The student with severe prior knowledge deficits can usually be rapidly remediated by learning basic thinking skills first: for instance, the basic memorization techniques, note taking, outlining, and free association recall techniques.

From Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking by Fredric Lozo

“Preventing future Mythos level attacks and remediating identified vulnerabilities requires the participation of the broader security industry, domain expertise, and deterministic detection, which Anthropic can’t deliver,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

US officials added that any future aid would be "dependent on the Somali Federal Government taking accountability" and remediating the matter.

From Barron's Jan. 8, 2026

This 2023 estimate from CalGEM is about three times higher than other parts of the state due to the complexity of sealing wells and remediating the surface in densely populated urban areas.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2025

Like others, Aquagga sees a big opportunity over the next few years for both destroying the foam and remediating the environmental damage associated with its use.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2025

Many communities, like SeaTac, are now remediating their school routes.

From Seattle Times Feb. 15, 2023




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