rehabilitate
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"The Authority's specialised teams have begun the technical and operational assessment of the airport, its facilities and systems, in preparation for developing a plan to rehabilitate it," Hasri said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Aiming to rehabilitate Zibo’s image as an industrial backwater, Jiang promoted the city as a production center for precooked meals, aiming to “allow the ‘Zibo flavor’ to spread its fragrance around the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
But Epstein courted influence and rubbed shoulders with prominent individuals associated with both parties in his efforts to rehabilitate his reputation.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Hüppe says the workshop system fails in one of its most basic responsibilities – to rehabilitate disabled people in order to prepare them to work in the mainstream economy.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Trapper thought it might take Boobie as long as two years to rehabilitate, and he still didn’t know anyone who had ever come back 100 percent from it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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If he rehabilitates successfully and develops his game after a fine debut season, he seems destined to become one of the world's leading strikers.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“I’m usually not a guy who rehabilitates someone when he writes about them,” Wolff told David Remnick on the New Yorker Radio Hour in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Also in the field of women’s monstrosity, there’s Madeline Miller’s Circe and other contemporary feminist retellings, fiction that rehabilitates female villains of legend and literature, from Lady Macbeth to Baba Yaga to Japanese yokai.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
“I’m telling you, he rehabilitates animals and brings them back to life,” Deneb said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
This illustration of the divination by which the man of culture possesses himself of a half-forgotten and obscurely recorded experience and rehabilitates and interprets it, is so complete that it makes amplification superfluous.
From Books and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
He said that members of the royal family have survived media hostility before and rehabilitated their image: Camilla as the “other woman” in Charles’s marriage to Diana, and Charles as the unfaithful husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This looked like a humiliation ritual to me: Crowley wasn’t polling competitively even when he was actively campaigning, and it seemed unlikely that his brand could be rehabilitated with such little time left.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
The party rehabilitated him in the wake of Mao's death, tapping him for jobs at the Ministry of Petroleum and State Economic Commission.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Similarly, MSF says it has rehabilitated and opened an Ebola treatment centre in Goma, as well as supported the training of medical staff in the city.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
I had rehabilitated myself and at the same time restored my own regard for him and the Thembu roval house.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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At the time, the organization was engaged in rehabilitating its image and getting back into Hollywood’s good graces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Ligon grew up in Ethel and spent summers during college rehabilitating wildlife in Costa Rica and Louisiana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The veteran superstar had a back operation in September 2024 and was rehabilitating from that setback when he announced in March of 2025 that he had suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
She was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her work rehabilitating offenders.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Because all I ever think about is Jamie, and I’m supposed to be working on rehabilitating my mental health.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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