remedy

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Watching home runs fly through the fresh air before the game didn’t prove as effective a remedy this time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“Disqualification is a remedy courts are not quick to administer,” she wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

On the other hand, I understand that false hope is a toxic strain of that remedy.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Prosecutors fired back, saying a court filing that "even if the defendants' constitutional rights were violated -- which they were not -- dismissal of the indictment would be far too drastic a remedy."

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

The novelist Charles Dickens felt Malthus depicted poor people as less than human; in novels such as Oliver Twist, he sought to remedy that, making poor people well-rounded main characters.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman