How to Use redress in a Sentence

redress

1 of 2 verb
  • It is time to redress the injustices of the past.
  • Admitting to the sins of the past does not redress those sins.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
  • Now is the time to name, acknowledge and redress the harm done by Louis Agassiz.
    Fox News, 21 June 2019
  • It's redressed weekly, so you're bound to see new things every time you pop by.
    Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 2 Apr. 2019
  • Courts can award monetary damages to redress any harm that flows from the speech.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Trump has spent the past few years claiming to redress that imbalance.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The Build Back Better Act would start to redress the imbalance.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The new government is also under pressure to redress the wrongs of the past.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2019
  • The only thing worthy of debate is about the right way to redress the imbalance.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
  • The tree-equity portion of the Build Back Better Act aims to redress some of those decades-old policies.
    James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The school pledged $100 million to redress the injustices.
    Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • At times, the U.S. has sought to redress that claim, but following through has been much more difficult.
    Time, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The move comes amid a district-wide push to redress racial disparities.
    Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
  • Should it be used to get the economy back on track, or to redress longstanding health inequities?
    Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The South African screen industries have made important strides in the past three decades to redress the inequalities of the apartheid era.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Courts first need to be convinced that plaintiffs have suffered an injury, that the injury could be traced back to the defendant, and that the court can redress it.
    The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Across the country, cities are grappling with the effects of urban renewal and, in some cases, trying to redress the harm done.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2021
  • His statement added that his team was working with galleries as well as his book publisher to find a way to redress the issue.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Now, lawsuits filed on both sides of the Atlantic are seeking to redress the situation.
    Vivienne Walt, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to redress the balance of trade in the U.S.
    Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Six years on, there are more politicians pledging to redress the skewed distribution of income and wealth.
    Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When nurses redressed Joyce’s bandages, her children saw her tendons and bones.
    AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Yellow Kid, a crazed cartoon character who gave the yellow press its moniker, set out in one series of comic strips to redress Cuba’s ills.
    John Maxwell Hamilton, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
  • To me, there’s something going on here that should be redressed, this shocking inequality in the system.
    Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Then there is the drive to use that context to bring to light fashion stories and designers that have been overlooked, largely because of race or gender, and to redress those wrongs.
    New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • June is a month filled with potential blockbusters that could go some way towards redressing the box office gap with 2022.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • His other motive was to redress a U.S. advantage in long-range missiles.
    Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
  • You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. .
    Jim Geraghty, National Review, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Some challenges have focused on policies adopted after the 2020 protests over George Floyd’s killing by police as companies pledged more efforts to redress racial inequalities in the workplace.
    Alexandra Olson, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2024
  • President Joe Biden’s attempt to redress years of unfair policies was contested by white farmers, who complained of racial discrimination.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
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redress

2 of 2 noun
  • Nor, for that matter, are there clear ways for a patient to seek redress.
    Maia Szalavitz, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Rather than her thinking about revenge, the program helps her to seek redress through the courts.
    New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
  • First, protests are dispersed with a mixture of threats and promises of redress.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The couples who sought redress in the courts have not been deprived of a pet or a motorcycle, but of a child.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But how to work out what price is too high, and what redress is appropriate?
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The Tronkas are well connected, and Kohlhaas’s attempts to seek legal redress fail.
    Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Israel, of course, represents a global redress for the wrongs done in that year and the following decade.
    Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • In 1999, the Tribunal concluded that the river was a treasure -- or taonga -- to Whanganui Māori, and urged redress.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Beyond the protests and social-media campaigns, landlord groups have sought redress through the courts.
    Molly Osberg, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In all, the redress payments of $2 billion are destined to reach 16 million customers.
    Emily Flitter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • With a new silver-screen adaption coming to theaters this fall, now is the time redress that oversight.
    Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Those carve-outs are needed to allow victims to seek redress, the department has said.
    Ryan Tracy, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Fontaine spent years pressing the government for redress.
    Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Many seek redress in court and run up against numerous hurdles.
    al, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The task force has recommended more than 100 programs or policies as redress for the harms of slavery.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • The release didn’t even mention the $2 billion in redress and restitution to customers.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The bank would have faced a £37.2 million penalty if the FCA hadn’t taken into account its redress program.
    Sabela Ojea, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • In other words, Shinar said, groups without much of a lobby in the Knesset, whose only redress is through the court system.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The government has been compensating tribes across the country since the late 1980s as redress for colonial wrongs.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That all but derailed plans for Liu, who had come to Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan province, to seek redress from a bank that has frozen his deposits.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 15 June 2022
  • After the study was made public in the early 1970s, the Black men and families who were affected filed a class action lawsuit to seek redress.
    Health.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • At best, though, success expedites their access to tools for redress.
    G'ra Asim, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
  • First, the plaintiffs gave up the right to sue or seek legal redress against the Church of Scientology in perpetuity.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 27 July 2022
  • Japanese Americans are one of the first and only groups to receive redress from the U.S. government.
    NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Black people and Black women have been written in the historical record in a specific way that needs its own kind of redress.
    Keyaira Boone, Essence, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Victims don't even have the most basic redress: the power to stop intimate images from spreading.
    Danielle Keats Citron, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • To no surprise, neither redress could match the egregious majesty of the originals (Reminder: Orchids can’t be 3D-printed).
    Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Harlem, once a hotbed of drug arrests, is pinpointed in the mapping tool as a leading candidate for redress.
    Ashley Southall, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Lewellen did not advocate violence against the state or its leaders, but sought redress and to halt the drift toward popish government.
    Brendan McConville, Time, 28 Sep. 2021
  • First Amendment rights to petition government for a redress of grievances cannot be abridged.
    Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022

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