How to Use remedial in a Sentence

remedial

adjective
  • Thirty percent of the new students need remedial classes in math.
  • He's taking a course in remedial reading.
  • Officials have pledged remedial action to repair damaged bridges.
  • Judge Leon should send the Trump trust-busters back to their law books for remedial study.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • At the time, the complaint said 59% of sixth graders in Hartford read below the state remedial level.
    Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2024
  • These are facts anyone can pull up in a remedial Google search.
    Nicolee Ambrose, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2024
  • To list the causes is to structure the remedial program.
    Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
  • That's the first lesson – a remedial one, perhaps – from the 2022 campaign.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Cities and states need to make sure that landlords carry out remedial work.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • An attitude, by the way, that would point to a need for remedial work in counseling.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • But the other two officers at the scene of the shooting, Pegues and Beckles, were sent to remedial training.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The remedial support is required in the law, but no details have been announced yet.
    al, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The bulk of the requests, about $15.7 million worth, will go to remedial instruction.
    David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The first two officers who arrived at Parker’s home on the day of the shooting were sent to remedial training.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 10 June 2021
  • But what about the remedial map recently adopted by the court?
    New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The court gave the legislature two weeks to draw new maps and submit them to a lower court, which will select a remedial plan.
    Ethan Cohen, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The law center has asked the Arbour Health System to submit a detailed remedial plan in the coming weeks.
    Liz Kowalczyk, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Thompson’s ruling four years ago started a remedial phase of the mental health portion of the case.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 25 May 2021
  • Prep the pot roast, scrub the bathtub spotless, take remedial ballet lessons or lay by the communal pool.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Now, the back half of the park is closed for the winter—and without the remedial gravel hauled in, the area around the landslide will deteriorate rapidly.
    Time, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Brady has a PhD in passing but is being forced to run a remedial aerial class instead of a master class due to what’s around him — or what’s not around him.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The judges assigned a special master to oversee the remedial map.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The site has and is being addressed in two stages: initial actions and a long-term remedial phase focusing on cleanup of the entire site.
    Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • However, the other two officers — the ones who didn’t shoot a man in the face — were assigned to remedial training.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 May 2021
  • Most of Bourne's 90-day suspension – 75 days – was held in abeyance for one year given that Bourne followed the remedial measures required by the court.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Wasn’t that like forcing remedial Spanish lessons on a Spaniard?
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
  • In fact, Darby returned to work, and the city sent the other two officers for remedial training.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But the first two other officers on the scene that day, Genisha Pegues and Justin Beckles, were sent for remedial training.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 5 May 2021
  • In those scenarios, the failure to appear charges are remedial, not punitive, and usually do not carry their own jail sentences.
    Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 21 July 2024
  • If your child has fallen behind in a particular academic area, schools can offer remedial support, tutoring, and other tools to help your child catch up.
    Christian Dashiell, Parents, 30 July 2024

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