reparative

Example Sentences

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“It’s a model for other states in search of reparative damage, realistic avenues for addressing the need for reparations.”

From New York Times

This week, the descendants of some of the UK's wealthiest slave owners launched an activist movement, urging the government to apologise for slavery and offer reparative justice.

From BBC

Such reparative civic work often requires artists to compete with one another and to cater to myriad stakeholders who see their work as a “political symbol” — which Leigh, for one, is loath to do.

From New York Times

But Wilson’s impulses were reparative, and throughout his career, he seemed to recoil from scenes of trauma and focus instead on depictions of people he knew, in the neighborhoods they were from.

From Washington Post

The need for “reparative work” to correct housing inequities underlay planners’ recommendations to add more affordable housing types in the Chevy Chase area of upper Northwest Washington, Cozart said.

From Washington Post