redress

Margaret wanted to sue but was advised they had no legal redress as it was not possible to defame the dead.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

"A person has no legal redress if they are filmed in the street, on a bus, in a classroom," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

An individual emotional response to a government policy or action isn’t an injury courts can redress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

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

The first episode ends with a shot of a “Make America Gay Again” hat, which Grace has left on a chair in the Oval Office, as if that sufficiently redresses her self-absorption.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2017

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

Finally I said: "Have you any means by which you could compel the ducal house to make adequate acknowledgments and redresses to you?"

From The Secrets of the German War Office by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

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

Even if every broken heart could be mended and every theft of opportunity redressed, ethno-racial communities would still rightly honor the endurance and resistance that sustained their members.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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

In standing terms, that means their injury won’t be redressed by the relief they seek, so they have no right to sue.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

"It's also about redressing the pay gap over the last 10 years," she said, claiming teachers had seen a 20% fall in real-terms wages since 2013.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023

Unlike the other four justices who supported race-conscious policies as a way of redressing racial injustice, Powell alone favored permitting admissions officers to consider applicants’ race for the purpose of attaining a diverse student body.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022

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

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman