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rehab

[ree-hab] / ˈriˌhæb /


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For decades, Baltimore owed the intractability of its vacant housing crisis to simple economics: It cost more to rehab a vacant home than that renovated home could be sold for.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Depending on the severity of a partial UCL tear, rehab and strengthening the muscles around the elbow can sometimes at least put off surgery.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

With this much time off, however, Ohtani will need to build back up to a starter’s workload without the benefit of a rehab assignment, similar to what he did last season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

After months of hospitalization and rehab, Reile slid into a deep depression.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Dr. Swingle suggested cardiac rehab, leaving it up to Gora to find a program and arrange it.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Injured relief pitchers Evan Phillips and Brusdar Graterol are progressing in their respective rehabs, Roberts said before Friday’s game.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2026

And even when patients do spend the time and money to enter treatment, rehabs fail them.

From Slate Dec. 19, 2025

Ultimately, O’Neill quit the business in 2020 and forwarded information documenting rehabs that paid him to the Orange County district attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

“Samples from small mammals are rolling in now and things at the wildlife rehabs pick up substantially in spring,” he says.

From Science Magazine Apr. 29, 2024

I wondered if she was the right person for the job: she seemed awfully enamored of the rehabs that Debra and her crew had performed.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

Sutor has rehabbed seven dilapidated homes around Gary and purchased 20 empty lots for new-home construction.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Many of the men being rehabbed by the right, though, don’t meet this standard.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2025

Then the bridges went up, commuters abandoned the ferries, the building was rehabbed into ugly offices and decades passed.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2024

In one sequence, marine biologists lovingly restore a rehabbed coral polyp to a reef.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2024

“Every summer the other whatnots will be sent away for updating, and the storage areas will be rehabbed in their absence,” the woman said.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Trade-deadline acquisition Kris Bubic, who is rehabbing at the Dodgers’ Arizona complex, is taking advantage of the opportunity to be around the team this weekend at Chase Field.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

Carlos Alcaraz will not defend his French Open title because of a wrist injury, while world number seven Taylor Fritz has been resting and rehabbing a long-term knee problem since March.

From BBC May 6, 2026

For the first time since he signed his $700 million contract with the Dodgers, Ohtani isn’t rehabbing an arm injury.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

That’s a frightening thing, considering Paramount has already announced plans to continue rehabbing disgraced “Melania” director Brett Ratner’s career with a new “Rush Hour” film.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2026

It was a temporary gig, and after five months he moved on to rehabbing homes in the city—another temporary job.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore




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