rectify

Example Sentences

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His ideas of trying to rectify the distortions in the transport market make sense to me, too.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

"Apologies for that but I promise we will make it better. We are going to go away and work as hard as we can to go away and rectify things."

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

“Every time we hear from a victim or their lawyer that they believe that their name was not properly redacted, we immediately rectify that,” he told ABC News on Sunday.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

Now that they were in the same room, Cora was compelled to rectify her months of silence.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead