RECTIFICATIONS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

rectifications

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plural of rectification

as in amendments

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That could include new signs across the entire 4,500-acre property; updated BNA Shop merchandise; shuttle bus decals, uniforms, business cards and amendments to hundreds of legal contracts, leases and other government documents.

— Molly Davis, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
While McConnell has been able to vote by proxy on amendments during committee meetings, proxy votes cannot be used to advance legislation out of committee.

— Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of amendments

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Supreme’s modifications are purely cosmetic, as the streetwear label has stamped the upper of each boot with a repeating diamond tread pattern.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
The tests analyze modifications to DNA and return a single number that may run higher or lower than the years on your driver’s license.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of modifications

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Trabue had faced charges of complicity to murder and complicity to robbery in the first degree in connection with the February 2025 shooting death of former Louisville corrections officer Michael Saye Wehdah.

— Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2026
What that means is that spacecraft at the unstable points—L1, L2 and the third Lagrange point (L3)—need regular course corrections to keep them from drifting off into space.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of corrections

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Those changes include alterations to Big Willow over the next 18 months, including a new clubhouse, a new and expanded balcony, and a space dedicated to the Petersen Automotive Museum for a focus on historical race cars.

— Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2026
In situations where the facts support that an owner’s installation is a material alteration, the approval procedures for alterations to the common elements prescribed under the community’s governing documents would need to be followed.

— Nicole R. Kurtz, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of alterations

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Trump requested changes to the helipad last month after expressing dissatisfaction with the project.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2026
Ramsey, meanwhile, followed Joe Willock against Liverpool, Barnes against West Brom and Nick Woltemade at Spurs in providing a goal contribution as a substitute, continuing Jaissle’s early knack of making match-altering changes.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of changes

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The show will be arranged in spatial layouts, with prototypes and drawings realized in variations of a translucent, veil-like mesh, which Throup has long used as a metaphor for identity and concealment.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
Four of the 10 ideas on the list are variations on a connection from the eastern side of the Capistrano neighborhood to state Route 76.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of variations

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Yet due to geography and time zone differences, local traders face a distinct natural disadvantage compared to their counterparts in New York, namely having to wake up three hours earlier.

— , CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
The two wives soon strike up a tentative friendship as Ye-ji expresses interest in telling Ho-seok’s story — but the group dynamic grows increasingly complicated by their extreme class differences and subtly conflicting desires.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026

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