reparatory

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Last year, Commonwealth leaders agreed it was time for a "meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation" about reparatory justice for the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

This is the most commonly understood form of reparatory justice – where a state gives money to a country whose communities it enslaved.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday sent warning letters to 10 drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for weight loss, diabetes, asthma and other reparatory conditions.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

There is, besides, a constant interchange of electricities between the ocean and the burning mountains, the upheaving from the ocean bed having probably some connection with the reparatory powers.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin