restorative
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She told The Times she has been assigned to a restorative justice drug court and consulted on police misconduct cases for the public defender’s accountability unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Increasingly, the focus is shifting toward what the brain is actually doing during the night and whether that sleep is biologically restorative.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The potential for conflict bursts into the open at a seaside home that has been in Ye-ji’s husband’s family for years, where the group has decamped for a supposedly restorative holiday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The East Stroudsburg Area School Board in Pennsylvania received a glowing 2025 restorative practices report from its director of secondary education, a “certified Restorative Practices trainer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
This approach must go beyond the rhetoric of “community policing” to a method of engagement between and among people in the community that promotes trust, healing, restorative justice, and reparations.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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I call them restoratives, as they replenish and nourish me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Chains such as Lush, the U.K.-based company with 200 U.S. stores, and Ulta Beauty, which has 1,100 stores, have both benefited from rising demand for moderately priced cosmetics, bath gels and other personal restoratives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
Subsequently he was removed to Wagner’s hotel, where restoratives were administered by the attending physician.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2019
Barnips Lozenges, Coltsfoot Rock, and Teddy Gray's Herbal Tablets are among the old-fashioned restoratives still occupying a place in our medicine cabinets.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2016
Placing his lovely burthen in a seat, Guy Fawkes instantly went in search of such restoratives as the place afforded.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
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