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redemptive

[ri-demp-tiv] / rɪˈdɛmp tɪv /


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Three-time runner-up Justin Rose, who is jjoint fourth, is targeting his own redemptive win after losing to McIlroy in last year's sudden-death play-off and credits his own patience for his back-nine climb up the leaderboard.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

That arc—and its thematic concern with the relationship-rending pressures of commercial success—replays itself here through the plot’s time-traveling machinations, but this time it’s given a happier ending, a redemptive lesson in the value of friendship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

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

And history has proven over and over again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry




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