redeems

present tense third-person singular of redeem
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as in saves
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 forgives
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 rehabilitates
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 compensates
to make up for (an offense) quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology

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Recent Examples of redeems Anyone who redeems this DraftKings promo will have a head-start going into Week 1 of the college football season. Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • Tesla’s board proposed a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that would catapult the tech entrepreneur’s wealth above $1 trillion if the company fulfills a set of rigorous benchmarks over the next decade, according to a securities filing on Friday.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Yes, the grand heist fulfills the ego.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • This multimodal integration not only saves manual labor but improves the accuracy and defensibility of benchmarking outcomes, particularly important for transfer pricing in complicated, multi-jurisdictional settings.
    Chidambaram Bhat, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Lukas Weese Shot of the day Jannik Sinner saves a break point with a flick of the wrists and a sharp angle.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • And foxes are the most expensive animals the facility rehabilitates.
    Katie Nixon, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, his most significant impact came in his community outreach work with OMNI New York, which acquires, builds, and rehabilitates affordable housing in the New York metropolitan area.
    John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • A little over half of that burden will hit farmers directly in the form of falling retail prices, SBI said, unless the government compensates for the loss.
    Sriram Iyer, executive editor, CNBC-TV18, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The compliance inherent to the finger effectively compensates for the inaccuracies in human actuation, leading to robust behavior.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2022
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  • The bar also partners with Wags and Walks, a non-profit organization that rescues and adopts dogs in need.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • What rescues the film from tedium are the characterizations, which are well-drawn even under the briefest circumstances.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One satisfies a contract; call it a business arrangement.
    Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In an era where greenwashing is easily exposed and surface-level philanthropy no longer satisfies stakeholders, the search for meaningful CSR programs is more urgent than ever.
    Sivan Yaari, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Continue reading … TRUTH COMES OUT – MSNBC corrects contractor's false claim that Israeli forces killed Gaza boy during aid distribution.
    , FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When faced with a significant initial error of 50%, the new method corrects itself within just 5 seconds, while conventional approaches require over 100 seconds—a 20-fold improvement in recovery speed, according to researchers.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
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  • The strategy keeps more resources available in the short term than if the buyer had paid for the home in full up front.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The elevated surface also keeps your pet off the ground, which can be ideal for keeping them clean while outside.
    Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Redeems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redeems. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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