rehabilitate
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"The Authority's specialised teams have begun the technical and operational assessment of the airport, its facilities and systems, in preparation for developing a plan to rehabilitate it," Hasri said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Blair, whose IMDb site lists dozens of movies and television shows dating back to 1968, founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation in 2003 to rehabilitate and rescue abandoned and abused animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
BBC Radio Merseyside reporter Giulia Bould says the influential Grealish is set to re-sign on loan towards the end of this window as he continues to rehabilitate from a stress fracture to his foot.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
But Epstein courted influence and rubbed shoulders with prominent individuals associated with both parties in his efforts to rehabilitate his reputation.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The twins thought they had been trying hard, and Jackson in particular, feeling he was still in disgrace in the Tallis household, thought he might begin to rehabilitate himself by pleasing Briony.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
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
In Los Angeles County, the Marine Mammal Care Center rescues, rehabilitates and releases injured animals along the coast and on Catalina Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
The way she rehabilitates soils and water contaminated with oil and other chemicals is relatively simple.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2022
It is this personal EXPERIENCE, this exaltation, this sense of immediate, non-intellectual revelation, of mystical oneness with all things, that again and again rehabilitates a ritual otherwise moribund.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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
Phillips said that while rehabilitation of offenders was "vital", perpetrators should be able to be rehabilitated "within our youth estate".
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The warm embrace was a signal that the de facto Saudi leader, once shunned in the West, was fully rehabilitated on the world stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
She’s the latest patient to graduate from the Long Beach aquarium, which has rehabilitated sea turtles for more than 25 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Later, after I had been rehabilitated, I learned that Esther knew what I was interested in through the informal schooling at the center.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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Alcaraz’s been out rehabilitating a wrist he injured after winning the Australian Open in February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Sea otter mentorship is at the forefront of a formal partnership between the Aquarium of the Pacific and Monterey Bay Aquarium, which has been rehabilitating sea otters since the 1980s, according to Long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The veteran superstar had a back operation in September 2024 and was rehabilitating from that setback when he announced in March of 2025 that he had suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Countless people who have torn their ACLs and then spent a year rehabilitating were baffled by Vonn’s confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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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