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remediate

[ri-mee-dee-eyt] / rɪˈmi diˌeɪt /


VERB
remove, as pollutants
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Mold can pose health risks for some groups of people, and is expensive to remediate.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

In 2017, Gowan said the companies responsible "should be made to remediate".

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The company doesn’t have a plan to remediate indirect water consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

"We are looking at environmental disasters like oil spills, and identifying ways to remediate them in faster, greener and more sustainable ways," Oran said.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

Cordelia's agonised invocation and summons to the unpublished forces of nature, to be aidant and remediate to the good man's distress, is continually echoed by the poet, but with a broader application.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

UK Energy Secretary Michael Shanks, who visited the site on Monday, said some of the properties would be able to be remediated, but "some will not".

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The plan also pledges that by 2029, all buildings 36ft or above with unsafe cladding will either have been remediated, have a date for completion, or the landlords will be liable for severe penalties.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Students who fail these expectations and assessments should be retained and remediated.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Since he was having his mail forwarded to his office address while his home was being remediated, Sullivan wasn’t able to provide that until last month.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

The student with severe prior knowledge deficits can usually be rapidly remediated by learning basic thinking skills first: for instance, the basic memorization techniques, note taking, outlining, and free association recall techniques.

From Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking by Fredric Lozo

“Preventing future Mythos level attacks and remediating identified vulnerabilities requires the participation of the broader security industry, domain expertise, and deterministic detection, which Anthropic can’t deliver,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

US officials added that any future aid would be "dependent on the Somali Federal Government taking accountability" and remediating the matter.

From Barron's Jan. 8, 2026

This 2023 estimate from CalGEM is about three times higher than other parts of the state due to the complexity of sealing wells and remediating the surface in densely populated urban areas.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2025

Like others, Aquagga sees a big opportunity over the next few years for both destroying the foam and remediating the environmental damage associated with its use.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2025

The tools look for more signals of malicious activity and automate many of the time-consuming tasks of investigating and remediating breaches.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2023




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