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redeemed

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verb

past tense of redeem
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as in saved
to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price the government has consistently refused to redeem hostages captured by terrorists

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as in pardoned
to free from the penalties or consequences of sin the belief that sinners are redeemed by their faith in God

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as in rehabilitated
to make better in behavior or character the unfaithful husband made a determined effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and children

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as in repaid
to make up for (an offense) quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology

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Recent Examples of redeemed
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The deal is available for in-restaurant orders at the register only and cannot be redeemed via kiosk, online or third party. Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 6 May 2026 This bonus offer will be fulfilled as 20,000 ThankYou® Points, which can be redeemed for $200 cash back. Liz Knueven, CNBC, 2 May 2026 The first was a blistering one-timer by Carcone, who redeemed his miss earlier in the game with a shot from a bad angle that beat Hart on the short side. Jesse Granger, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026 Tugging on the heartstrings can be a cheap trick in the hands of the wrong songwriter, but the genre’s best songs are redeemed by a fastidious eye and a poetic ear. Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026 The toxic soil from which all these horrors spring, as the Red Bull production makes clear, is a disordered Roman state, redeemed neither by those who try to uphold its traditions nor by those who violate them. James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 26 Apr. 2026 Any gift certificates not redeemed by May 31 will be forfeited. Neal Riley, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 The code must be redeemed within 30 days of purchase. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026 And that is something that needs to be redeemed and addressed and atoned for. Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redeemed
Verb
  • Congress has not always fulfilled its oversight responsibilities, and the differences between the last two administrations are a clear example of that.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • An Orlando resident has completed his end of the plea bargain from a 2020 crash that killed three teens, and now the courts have fulfilled theirs by wiping his criminal record clean.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
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  • The fjord bends, combined with the ship being far enough away and in deep water, were key factors that saved them.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
  • Joe Kilsheimer, a former Sentinel reporter who later served as mayor of Apopka and president of the Friends of Lake Apopka, said Thomas believed even during the lake’s bleakest times that it could be saved.
    Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • The hilltop structures were originally built as Catholic shrines dedicated to the virgins they're named after, but were turned into military fortresses in the early 1800s—they have since been rehabilitated for tourism.
    Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
  • All the birds had been struck by vehicles and rehabilitated.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, the funds from a reverse mortgage will only need to be repaid when the home is sold or when the homeowner dies.
    Matt Richardson, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Authorities rightly repaid the favor by charging Allen with attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, and transporting and discharging a firearm.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
Adjective
  • Freyre said he's been dreaming of a liberated Cuba since almost immediately after Castro took over.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • State court records show Blueprint satisfied the judgment by last April.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What has followed, a decade plus of stunning hockey played by the most talented hockey player on earth, has satisfied all desires but the most important one.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • After a nearby hospital is hacked and ransomed, the higher-ups decide to defend its system by shutting it down, which means business must be conducted in the old-fashioned, paper-and-clipboards way.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Her cousins and aunt were ransomed and released in Lebanon; Caroline was taken separately, chosen by an ISIS emir, and has never been found.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Public frustration at the closure of the two east-west roads led to projects that reclaimed them.
    Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • The app launched on Thursday and is available on both the App Store and Google Play, and, according to the Post, over 500,000 former creators, including stars like Lele Pons, JimmyHere, MightyDuck, and Jack & Jack, have already reclaimed their accounts.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026

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