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rehabilitate

[ree-huh-bil-i-tayt, ree-uh-] / ˌri həˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt, ˌri ə- /


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When Ohtani spoke with reporters before the playoffs started, he said he might not know the full extent of his injuries or what he might need to do to rehabilitate them until after the postseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Schmitt: I’m glad you’re trying to rehabilitate the witness, but it’s not your time.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jakarta has also been in touch with conservation NGOs to help rehabilitate the baby orangutans, the ministry statement added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The plethora of portraiture was part of Elizabeth’s campaign to both rehabilitate her mother’s image and strengthen her own claims to the throne.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

My dad volunteered part-time at the bird rescue, where he helped rehabilitate snowy egrets hit by cars and pelicans that had swallowed fishhooks.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The author rehabilitates the Greek Arachne—unfairly condemned to be a spider because of her creative ability—then returns us to Spider Woman and Spider Grandmother, the kindly, creative beings who bring life and wisdom to humankind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

The Duke of Sussex met war victims in Ukraine on Thursday when he visited a clinic which rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians, a spokesperson has said.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

Also in the field of women’s monstrosity, there’s Madeline Miller’s Circe and other contemporary feminist retellings, fiction that rehabilitates female villains of legend and literature, from Lady Macbeth to Baba Yaga to Japanese yokai.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024

The organization rescues and rehabilitates sea lions and elephant seal pups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Fire destroys falsehood,—that is to say, sophistry,—and rehabilitates truth, scattering the darkness.

From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci

His attorney Michael Beckman once called Davis “the most rehabilitated inmate I’ve ever represented.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

He said that members of the royal family have survived media hostility before and rehabilitated their image: Camilla as the “other woman” in Charles’s marriage to Diana, and Charles as the unfaithful husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

This looked like a humiliation ritual to me: Crowley wasn’t polling competitively even when he was actively campaigning, and it seemed unlikely that his brand could be rehabilitated with such little time left.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The party rehabilitated him in the wake of Mao's death, tapping him for jobs at the Ministry of Petroleum and State Economic Commission.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Right now, I’m researching if there’s some community justice center for wildlife, a place where maybe she could be rehabilitated or something and then released.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

He spent all of the 2024 season and the first half of the 2025 season rehabilitating from elbow surgery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Teller’s bees were used for pollinating crops such as almonds on farms, and he also rescued bees before rehabilitating them and later renting them out for pollination.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Hundreds of millions of dollars more has been committed to building or rehabilitating several thousand affordable-housing units that supporters say might not otherwise go forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The Zambian segment of the Lobito Corridor -- often described as the missing link -- is not on LAR's near-term agenda, he added, citing the scale and cost of rehabilitating the rail infrastructure.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Because all I ever think about is Jamie, and I’m supposed to be working on rehabilitating my mental health.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman


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