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amendatory, corrective, rectifying, reformative, reformatory, remedying
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Wasn’t that like forcing remedial Spanish lessons on a Spaniard? — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019 All four will enter into a remedial agreement with the state to improve operations. — oregonlive.com, "Trillium, PacificSource win in $6 billion CCO beauty contest," 9 July 2019 Those who enroll in community college or university in either state can spend months taking remedial courses before their coursework counts towards a degree, says Jim Lanich of Educational Results Partnership, an NGO. — The Economist, "Public educationPublic education in both California and Texas is poor," 20 June 2019 Our scientifically incomplete intuitive model of causality is nevertheless very useful in practice, and helps us execute remedial actions when causes are clearly defined. — Quanta Magazine, "The Slippery Math of Causation," 30 May 2018 The nurse got remedial training, but the facility did not report what happened. — Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, The Denver Post, "AP: Nursing facilities failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect, abuse of seniors on Medicare," 12 June 2019 Such bouts of threat inflation invariably induced a prompt remedial increase in budget growth, regardless of whether the proclaimed threat actually existed. — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, "The Military-Industrial Virus," 10 June 2019 The first is that the remedial theory of affirmative action has effectively been overruled by the Supreme Court. — Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, "Arguing Affirmative Action," 7 Feb. 2019 Even though last summer the same conservative majority aggressively intervened to prevent any remedial maps from even being considered. — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, "The Supreme Court Continues to Chip Away at Protections for Minority Voters," 25 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'remedial.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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