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redemptive

[ri-demp-tiv] / rɪˈdɛmp tɪv /


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For those bands still trying to stay together, the night was redemptive.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

He understood, as he sang in “Ring of Fire,” that love could be painful as well as pleasant and that either way it was redemptive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

There is no way to make the social revolution America is experiencing painless, but it is still in our power to make it redemptive.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2025

Adoption among these organizations is still talked of as a being a redemptive choice.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2025

She should have said that it was not a crude revenge, or a scorekeeping, but took on a redemptive significance for her.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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