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Recent Examples of restitution McFarland served four years of his six-year sentence for his fraud conviction and still owes $26 million in restitution following the failure of the original Fyre Festival. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025 Howell was ordered to pay around $230,000 in restitution to the financial institution and forfeit around $88,000. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025 He was released from prison in 2022 and owes millions in restitution after a class-action settlement. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025 Recognizing the gravity of this scandal, French economist Thomas Piketty has argued that France should repay at least $28 billion to Haiti in restitution. Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for restitution
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Noun
  • Turner has been walking to D.C. monthly for 31 months to push for reparations.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Any future project to restore full economic ties with Russia will need to generate funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction or even for some form of reparations.
    ALEXANDER GABUEV, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Employee compensation as a share of national income had been 61.8% during that 2010-to-2019 period.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In these instances, many survivors never see their abusers held accountable and never receive proper compensation because many attorneys view these cases as infeasible, thereby denying survivors access to the civil justice system.
    Samantha Dos Santos, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Restitution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/restitution. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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