rehabilitate
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Schmitt: I’m glad you’re trying to rehabilitate the witness, but it’s not your time.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
That policy and other juvenile sentencing laws take into account evidence that some serious offenders rehabilitate in their 20s as they mature.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Wintour had worked to rehabilitate his image, and finally the moment had arrived: a multimillion-dollar party in his honor and a legacy-enshrining exhibit, both held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"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
“Of course. I can’t rehabilitate this eagle without you,” she says.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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The author rehabilitates the Greek Arachne—unfairly condemned to be a spider because of her creative ability—then returns us to Spider Woman and Spider Grandmother, the kindly, creative beings who bring life and wisdom to humankind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Its return will be “empowering” and restore “hope” as it supercharges conservation efforts and rehabilitates a vital piece of Māori cultural heritage.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2025
A mountain regional park and a conservation center that rescues and rehabilitates wildlife are also nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
In Los Angeles County, the Marine Mammal Care Center rescues, rehabilitates and releases injured animals along the coast and on Catalina Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
It is this personal EXPERIENCE, this exaltation, this sense of immediate, non-intellectual revelation, of mystical oneness with all things, that again and again rehabilitates a ritual otherwise moribund.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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
Marcia believes Scatchard was incapable of being rehabilitated in prison and should "absolutely not" have ever been released.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Later, after I had been rehabilitated, I learned that Esther knew what I was interested in through the informal schooling at the center.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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Not like he understood the assignment of rehabilitating his image, but with the sincerity of someone who appreciates what’s actually hard.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Sea otter mentorship is at the forefront of a formal partnership between the Aquarium of the Pacific and Monterey Bay Aquarium, which has been rehabilitating sea otters since the 1980s, according to Long.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
He spent seven months rehabilitating his knee in order to be fit for the Ashes and lamented not being able to play some games for his county before heading to Australia for the series.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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
This Circle needs to know that Peter Driscal is not rehabilitating well, either physically or emotionally.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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