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restitute

[res-ti-toot, -tyoot] / ˈrɛs tɪˌtut, -ˌtjut /




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He would like to see "more freedom for museums, but then a kind of backstop, a committee where we would have to appeal if we wanted to restitute items".

From BBC Jan. 24, 2024

The decision to restitute them follows several years of contacts between Berlin’s museum authority and Colombia, and an official Colombian request last year for their return.

From Washington Times Jun. 16, 2023

Macron said the 26 pieces will be given back at the end of October, “because to restitute these works to Africa is to give African young people access to their culture.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 8, 2021

No one knows that better than this group, which includes Alejandro Poiré, a former director of the Mexican government’s program to restitute those losses.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2016

The Español Government will make de Angleese restitute.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the panels were restituted to the monastic community at Vyšší Brod, which has entrusted them to the Agnes Cloister of the National Gallery for all to see.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

In 2024, the Manhyia Palace Museum received 67 restituted or loaned cultural objects from institutions including the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles.

From Barron's Nov. 10, 2025

John Littman said the family has worked to get around eight pieces restituted.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2019

Nonexperts often think that art unmoored during wartime can be restituted easily, she said, but the process can be full of dead ends.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2016

Economic and financial settlement, on the basis of exchange, of the territory invaded by both sides, and to be restituted by the conclusion of peace.

From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von

The agency said it had "detected fraudulent diversion of public money by various Reliance Anil Ambani group companies" and that it was "committed to restituting" the proceeds of these crimes to "their rightful claimants".

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

The Met said in a statement that it was following its “long and well-documented history of responding to claims regarding works of art, restituting objects where appropriate.”

From New York Times Oct. 24, 2021

The museum has “a long and well documented history of responding to claims regarding works of art, restituting objects where appropriate, being transparent about the provenance of works in the collection,” the statement said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2021

“Restituting the Iraqi artifacts for me means restituting our self-esteem and confidence in Iraqi society,” he said, speaking through a translator.

From Washington Times Sep. 23, 2021

Some cases have made their way through the courts, but Poland has never passed a comprehensive law that would regulate restituting or compensating seized properties.

From Seattle Times Aug. 14, 2021




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