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restorative

[ri-stawr-uh-tiv, -stohr-] / rɪˈstɔr ə tɪv, -ˈstoʊr- /




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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

Another said teachers needed to try harder at restorative justice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

As one of the nation’s foremost experts on restorative justice, she was the one people turned to in situations like this, situations where healing seemed possible.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

In a few seconds we had her out and were trying restoratives; and on detecting signs of returning life we carried her up to the waggons.

From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick




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