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remedy

[rem-i-dee] / ˈrɛm ɪ di /




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The court "misunderstands FIFRA's requirement, misinterprets the scope of FIFRA's preemption and ultimately leaves Durness without a remedy for the significant harms he has suffered."

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Since the judgment, the trust has worked with the nurses to reach a remedy agreement.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The lasting remedy came with the development of two vaccines in the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Mercedes have looked into the legal complications around this and concluded there is no remedy for that available to them.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

“It’s not fancy like American medicine, I know, just an old remedy my mother taught me.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

A further trial is also scheduled for October this year to determine the consequences of any actionable breaches and any issues relating to damages or other remedies.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

As schools across the nation search for remedies, one of the most closely watched efforts is playing out in Tennessee.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

But he was also predisposed to remedies that would not require what he described as “a priori, the sacrifice of the energy value of oil, gas, and coal.”

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

He cast no doubt upon race-conscious remedies that the government might take to ensure that “all citizens are equal before the law.”

From Slate Jun. 22, 2026

No prayer, no cure from the modern doctor two towns over, no remedies of the field offered shyly and secretly by his parishioners.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

The resulting racing inefficiencies can be remedied with market designs that slow the pace of trading, but more accurate clocks will not solve the underlying problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Every single person in that room revealed that they had dense breasts, which we thought could be remedied somehow through self-massage.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2026

"But we believe that we have remedied that," he added.

From Barron's Nov. 16, 2025

Masli remedied this problem by introducing her to someone who vaguely claimed to be of German extraction.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 21, 2025

She insulted and encouraged, pushed and poked, brewed and stewed and remedied.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

The resolution also emphasised that reparation claims "represent a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs against Africans and people of African descent".

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

The iOS 26.4 update improved keyboard accuracy by remedying the ghost-letter problem, but autocorrect issues persist.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 2026

“This has been one of the holy grails of remedying the Korean discount, and there’s at least a 50-50 chance of it passing this year,” he says.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

Over the summer, California’s Reparations Task Force called for repealing such laws in its recommendations for remedying the legacies of slavery and more modern government-sanctioned policies that discriminated against Black residents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2023

Fizz is prone to remedying me and would invariably seek the answer to my “problem.”

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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