re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt 
remediated; remediating; remediates
: to make (something) the target of remedial action : to provide a remedy for
… the process of removing the spent fuel, draining the holding pool, remediating the site, and treating contaminated groundwater.—
Jeff Johnson
Jeff JohnsonWork is underway … to remediate erosion on a 6000 foot section on the Gill bank of the Connecticut River.—David Detmold
David DetmoldBut here's the thing: [basketball coach John] Calipari was worried, worried enough to try all sorts of things behind the scenes to remediate his team's results at the line.—Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff
re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ət
archaic
: remedial
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
CFOs should calculate costs associated with remediating an environmental or human rights liability—costs that can arise once the company discloses the issue, even when that disclosure does not trigger a regulatory penalty.
—Jim Deloach, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
James Blake, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Bitdefender doesn’t try to replace LifeLock or similar identity theft protection services that aim to detect and remediate identity theft.
—PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
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Verb
The company has identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting and is taking steps to remediate these weaknesses, including enhancing process controls and hiring additional personnel.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
CFOs should calculate costs associated with remediating an environmental or human rights liability—costs that can arise once the company discloses the issue, even when that disclosure does not trigger a regulatory penalty.
—Jim Deloach, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
Although anomaly detection is very good at identifying deviations from the norm and machine learning is excellent at classification, AI can’t piece together an understanding of an attack that produces a definitive set of tasks that need to be undertaken to remediate threats.
—James Blake, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Bitdefender doesn’t try to replace LifeLock or similar identity theft protection services that aim to detect and remediate identity theft.
—PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
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remediate
transitive verb
re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt
: to make the target of remedial action
the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to remediate the pollution at or on the site—General Statutes of Connecticut
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