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rehabilitate

[ree-huh-bil-i-teyt, ree-uh-] / ˌri həˈbɪl ɪˌteɪt, ˌri ə- /


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But he said the Tartan Army had helped rehabilitate the image.

From BBC Jul. 3, 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

Although the craze is high right now, Reformer was invented by Joseph Pilates during World War I, when he adapted hospital beds with springs to help rehabilitate patients.

From BBC May 4, 2026

Dinkins wants to make a documentary in order to rehabilitate his image but often refuses to cooperate with the self-serious filmmaker’s process.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

Even if it is just part of the temporary scheme to rehabilitate me, it is bliss.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

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

He pleads for the frog, and applies himself to setting forth his unknown qualities; he rehabilitates the bat, the hedgehog, and the screech-owl, persecuted, defamed, crushed, stoned, and crucified!

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard

But the reverse is also true, and former antagonists can be rehabilitated, welcomed once again into the president's good graces.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

To investigate hedgehog hearing, researchers at the University of Oxford worked with collaborators in Denmark to measure the auditory brainstem response of 20 rehabilitated hedgehogs from Danish wildlife rescue centers.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

Authorities will also begin reinforcing buildings that are able to be rehabilitated "and demolishing those at risk of collapse", he said.

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

Do you think Venezuela’s oil field can be rehabilitated?

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 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

He spent all of the 2024 season and the first half of the 2025 season rehabilitating from elbow surgery.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

Teller’s bees were used for pollinating crops such as almonds on farms, and he also rescued bees before rehabilitating them and later renting them out for pollination.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

The Zambian segment of the Lobito Corridor -- often described as the missing link -- is not on LAR's near-term agenda, he added, citing the scale and cost of rehabilitating the rail infrastructure.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

The star forward, who is rehabilitating from an Achilles tendon tear suffered in the playoffs last June, and has lately been practicing with the team, continues to sit out real action.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 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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