How to Use corrective in a Sentence

corrective

adjective
  • She had corrective surgery on her knee this past summer.
  • People with bad eyesight usually need to wear corrective lenses, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses.
  • The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action.
    CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Chase Bank branch quickly took corrective steps after the tragedy.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
  • The state and city negotiated the corrective plan that held off the threat of a total state takeover of BPS.
    Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Some of this is just corrective action by the current regime.
    John Canzano, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In 2021, they were told to submit a corrective action plan.
    Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • To me, the nightly BirdCast map is a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
    Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • To me, the nightly BirdCast map has come to mean a great deal, not least a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
    Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Dan explored the idea of corrective surgery to fix his injured back but the results of those kinds of surgeries were often hit and miss.
    Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The texture of their lives offers a corrective to erasure.
    Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This would be a corrective to that, as well as a much-deserved coronation.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Runion said that even after corrective jaw surgery that cost tens of thousands of dollars, some of her teeth may still be at risk.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, the officials funded some of the research that led to the corrective eye surgery technique.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Dean and Hines would not provide the further corrective action made by the district and Hamilton.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The surgery didn't go as planned, so Joe had corrective surgery that resulted in seven screws and a plate being put in his left foot.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • For the first six months of my life, specialists were focused on corrective measures that just weren’t working.
    Hunter Woodhall and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Though a corporation can’t go to prison, PG&E could face more fines and corrective actions ordered by the court.
    J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The report did note that about 51% of corrective actions have been verified and addressed.
    Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In 2013, the FDA closed out its review after Abiomed took corrective actions that appeared to address the concerns.
    Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The corrective actions are determined on a case-by-case basis.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The safety commission gave Metro 30 days to respond to each of the 14 findings in the audit and propose corrective action plans.
    Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
  • But this could be a year when all these corrective efforts collapse under the weight of flaws in the underlying polling itself.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The KPIs here are the corrective measures needed to pass an audit, the success rate with audit compliance and the time to achieve compliance.
    Vince Arneja, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Our history is replete with their clear and corrective lessons, and is adorned by their vision of justice and freedom.
    Peter J. Travers, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • What follows is a bit of a corrective; the true experiences of nine burners, from the newbies to the two-decade veterans, at Burning Man 2023.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The social movements of the nineteen-fifties and sixties spawned their own, generally corrective takes on the nation’s past.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Since the shooting, Rowe said, the agency has identified gaps in the security detail on the day of the rally and implemented corrective actions.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • Prior to the corrective phase, DAL broke out decisively above long-term trading range resistance.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 15 July 2024

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