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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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4
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
Verb
The card also earns 3X rewards on pet stores, pet services and at any licensed vet (just note rewards can only be redeemed for a statement credit). Ryley Amond, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026 This ticket must be redeemed at one of the nine Florida Lottery offices throughout the state. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026 McDonald's $2 breakfast sandwich deal can be redeemed over the holiday, but the fast-food giant also has travelers covered with a discount on gas at Shell stations. Mike Snider, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026 Separation from the means of production was redeemed through consumption; investing the working class more deeply in the relations of production. Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026 There’s room at ELG for further integrations, cost reductions, and synergies, like creating a new loyalty program where points accumulated at Saks, Neiman’s or Bergdorf’s could be redeemed at any of those stores. David Moin, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026 Unredeemed codes convert only to store credit after that window closes, and once a code is redeemed, the sale is final. New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026 Once redeemed, the five-year plan runs without additional fees or renewal costs. Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 Johnson redeemed himself by scoring on a 1-yard run moments later. Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redeemed
Adjective
  • Instead, Curry connected with fans like me because, as a performer, the man seemed able to do anything, and do it with a kind of liberated abandon and eagerness to entertain.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Chalk it up to the leftover hubris of late-20th-century American empire and the grand illusion of a liberated civilization thriving behind an impenetrable fortress.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Or maybe Sheriff Kane fulfilled her debt to Zoe not by rallying the town around her in 2016, but by killing her target in 2026?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Men and boys fulfilled traditional roles around a large circular drum, beating it rhythmically.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Companies and health systems that treat ambient documentation as a pure software problem (deploy it, minimize edits and measure only time saved) are more likely to discover the limits the hard way.
    Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Factor in a five-year survival rate of just under 30% for the disease a decent number of lives could be saved in the UK alone by blowing on one’s cup of English Breakfast.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That’s why Duffy was right to focus on new and rehabilitated equipment for these Midwest corridors that can put them to immediate use and fill them with passengers.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The teen will be charged as an adult designated, meaning that if convicted, he could be sentenced as a juvenile, an adult or as a juvenile with the option of receiving an adult sentence if not rehabilitated.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • If those IOUs are set to be repaid many years from now, they’re called bonds.
    Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The school has done so before — in 2022, Hiram repaid over $6 million of loans from its endowment.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • In fact, the vast majority of freed people remained in the South.
    Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The court sent unresolved questions about whether the warrant in that case satisfied constitutional requirements back to a lower court.
    Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • What Andert argues in his video is that LINXS has effectively ransomed LAX to the tune of $880 million — so far — to complete the supposedly less than 3 percent that remains to be built on the project.
    Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
  • 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

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“Redeemed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redeemed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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