as in reparation
payment to another for a loss or injury
the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard
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as in to avenge
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for
the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified
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Recent Examples of redress
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Which is to say that its power as a mode of redress in the first sense—as agent for proclaiming and correcting injustices—is being appealed to constantly.
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Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.
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Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Noun
This investment will not entirely solve that problem or redress the many inequities at work, but it will be used to create more incentives and to support international activation around domestic games, which will help promote the Bundesliga as a brand.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Which is to say that its power as a mode of redress in the first sense—as agent for proclaiming and correcting injustices—is being appealed to constantly.
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Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Verb
The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.
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Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.
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Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redress
Noun
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Collective, which advocates for reparations, land returns for Native Americans, bonds for newborns and a universal basic income.
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Calls for reparations have increased in recent years, reaching a crescendo with the UN designation in March — though the US, UK and a host of other countries either rejected the claim or abstained from voting on it.
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His character leads outcast samurai seeking to avenge their master's killing.
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The work reflects on the Greek myth of Orestes—the son who murdered his mother, Clytemnestra, to avenge the death of his father, Agamemnon.
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An effort to limit healthcare executives’ compensation.
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Offers in this section are from affiliate partners and selected based on a combination of engagement, product relevance, compensation, and consistent availability.
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In 2022, a jury awarded Depp more than $10 million in damages, while Heard won one of her counterclaims and was awarded $2 million.
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Most kinds of lawsuit damages are taxable, including employment cases, property loss or damage, defamation, emotional distress, invasion of privacy, credit reporting and consumer cases, and many others.
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“Redress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redress. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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