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Recent Examples of remedial Still, the commission did not impose a civil penalty due to the company's self-reporting, cooperation and remedial efforts, Wadhwa noted. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2024 There’s an increasing trend of remedial media literacy among modern audiences. Ryan Easby, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024 Her research, which uses the Hebrew Bible and other holy books from antiquity loosely as botanical reference guides, tests local species for their remedial properties and for potential use as alternative food crops. Franz Lidz, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024 Latino students entering California community colleges are more likely to be placed in remedial courses. Mike Madrid, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for remedial 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for remedial
Adjective
  • Buyers who have sought relief from the city have gotten nowhere: Emails, phone calls and meetings have prompted no corrective action.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • These moves underscore how crucial the pardon power really is: the last possible corrective when the criminal justice system imprisons too many people and punishes them too harshly.
    Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Breadfruit has been proven to have medicinal qualities (possibly addressing aspects of colon cancer and treating blood pressure), and a tea made with its leaves is said to induce sleep.
    Elaine Savory, JSTOR Daily, 24 Jan. 2025
  • These industry standards are applied to medicinal products seeking to be imported into the European Union, ensuring pharmaceutical-grade quality.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King's death, African Americans continue to proudly honor his reformative legacy in Phoenix.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2024
  • While the idea of hiring actors might raise some eyebrows, acting and artistry can be an important step in the reformative process, and Hemsworth suggested that the actors’ real-life experiences helped shape their on-screen characters.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • His cousin wanted to start a legitimate therapeutic massage parlor.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Every so often, the innies are provided with therapeutic wellness sessions with Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman), who tells them facts about their outies.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That rate is of an intensity that is beneficial and isn’t intense enough to start producing mud flows or a debris flow.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Rainfall will be mostly beneficial but poses a risk for dangerous debris flows over recent burn scars.
    James Bickerton, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There are no curative treatments or vaccines for Guinea worm disease.
    Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Give Kids a Chance Act would have encouraged scientists to combine drugs to find curative combinations that work for children, Goodman said.
    Andrew Stanton, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Remedial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remedial. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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