as in rehabilitating
to restore to a healthy condition
rehabbing the torture victim's battered body will be easier than restoring his emotional well-being
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Saudi Arabia has restored the full pumping capacity of its East-West pipeline to 7 million barrels a day, rehabilitating a vital link for oil exports via the Red Sea.—
Clara Ferreira Marques,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026 -
The Aquarium of the Pacific has a decades-long history of caring for Southern California's rehabilitating sea turtle population.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Trump’s attack on Leo coincided with the president posting an image appearing to depict him in the form of Jesus seemingly healing a very ill man with the power of his touch.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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State hospitals, especially those that treat difficult mental health patients, are not abstract healing environments untouchable by reality.—
Rick Pozniak,
Boston Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
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Artificial intelligence has quickly become the defining technology of the moment—promising breakthroughs from curing diseases to making space travel more routine, while also raising fears of widespread job disruption.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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If everything went right, the OpenAI founders believed, artificial intelligence could usher in a post-scarcity utopia, automating grunt work, curing cancer, and liberating people to enjoy lives of leisure and abundance.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Her son loved feeding stray cats and had a knack for fixing things, especially cars.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2026
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One can point now to GE’s 20th century polluting of the Hudson River with PCB chemical contamination or to the tens of millions the company paid out in price-fixing claims during the 1960s.—
Michael Kilian,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Rehabbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rehabbing. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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