restorative
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She told The Times she has been assigned to a restorative justice drug court and consulted on police misconduct cases for the public defender’s accountability unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Increasingly, the focus is shifting toward what the brain is actually doing during the night and whether that sleep is biologically restorative.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The potential for conflict bursts into the open at a seaside home that has been in Ye-ji’s husband’s family for years, where the group has decamped for a supposedly restorative holiday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Here is how restorative justice generally worked in the two schools I taught at: A student would disrupt class, shouting at me or throwing objects at other students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Whatever restorative effects a town visit offered always vanished with astounding swiftness on the trail.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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I call them restoratives, as they replenish and nourish me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Chains such as Lush, the U.K.-based company with 200 U.S. stores, and Ulta Beauty, which has 1,100 stores, have both benefited from rising demand for moderately priced cosmetics, bath gels and other personal restoratives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
Subsequently he was removed to Wagner’s hotel, where restoratives were administered by the attending physician.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2019
Barnips Lozenges, Coltsfoot Rock, and Teddy Gray's Herbal Tablets are among the old-fashioned restoratives still occupying a place in our medicine cabinets.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2016
Strong broths and other restoratives were then administered; and his strength being sufficiently restored to enable him to converse, the lieutenant again visited him, and questioning him as before, received a similar answer.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
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