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redress

[ree-dres, ri-dres, ri-dres] / ˈri drɛs, rɪˈdrɛs, rɪˈdrɛs /




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He said that "if people have given money and haven't received the service that they were entitled to they should seek redress".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

"A person has no legal redress if they are filmed in the street, on a bus, in a classroom," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Dozens more who worked at his luxury department store have filed for compensation under a redress scheme set up after a 2024 BBC documentary revealed the scale of his alleged offences.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“Across the Ages,” the first truly comprehensive Celtic art survey in the U.S., redresses that long-standing prejudice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

A bedrock principle of our legal system is that the federal judiciary adjudicates and redresses actual harms to real people.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

Thompson and Negga’s casting certainly redresses some recent concerns about whitewashing in cinema, but how they will perform whiteness remains a matter of intrigue.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2018

Her curator Ian Alteveer, for one, is focused on the art of Kerry James Marshall, a prominent figurative painter from Birmingham, Ala., whose work redresses the absence of black subjects in Western art.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2015

He redresses Johnson on Prior as he had redressed Macaulay on Steele; and he is not unjust, as we might have feared that he would be, to Pope.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

“I felt that there was a balance that needed to be redressed in some ways, that people weren’t getting the full story,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

While this puts constraints on the ability of states to regulate corporations, power imbalances between business and society can be redressed when people withdraw the support on which corporate entities depend.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024

Rogue Machine has taken strides to diversify its programming, but a persistent gender gap in playwriting signals a problem that will have to be redressed by Cienfuegos and his team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

In 2005, the historical situation was redressed, when South Korea paid direct compensation to tens of thousands of wartime laborers.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

Westley asked question after question while the albino tended and redressed his wound, then fed him food that was warm and surprisingly good and plentiful.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

That dragged total exports down by a total 7.3% on year, with other markets redressing some of the American drag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

“There is a trend towards redressing wrongs, telling untold stories, exposing truths, revealing hypocrisies,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

"It's also about redressing the pay gap over the last 10 years," she said, claiming teachers had seen a 20% fall in real-terms wages since 2013.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023

Record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs altogether, while others are redressing their work-life balance by “quiet quitting.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

She points to her wound, which is oozy, and clearly needs redressing.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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