rectify

Example Sentences

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Last year, he proposed to rectify this injustice via the Capital Gains Inflation Relief Act of 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

“Fargo” maps a decent person’s quick and steady moral decline, making sure to home in on the many opportunities Jerry has to rectify the mess he’s created.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

If you somehow missed this hilariously unique comedy-horror mockumentary about a group of vampires living in modern-day Staten Island, now is the time to rectify that.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

In a potential landmark case, the Justices on Monday will consider whether, and how, to rectify that historic mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The other men desired me, therefore, to write to Major Byrd as an intermediary and ask that he rectify this galling practice.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson