rectification

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Two particularly puzzling behaviors have long intrigued scientists: rectification and gating.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Mr Greenberg said he was concluding his inquiry using what is called the "rectification procedure" - a process used to correct minor failures to declare interests.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

Around the time Ant announced the change in control, Guo Shuqing, the Communist Party secretary at the People’s Bank of China, said the so-called rectification campaign into the biggest technology companies was “basically complete.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2023

The rectification of the egregious confiscation of beachfront property from the Bruce family by the Los Angeles County Board required strong leadership.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

But by then her acceptance of her fate was so deep that she was not even upset by the certainty that all possibilities of rectification were closed to her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez