as in to improve
to stop or reverse the damage of
Cleanup crews are working to remediate the site of the chemical spill. Remediating the pollution of the river will take some effort.
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Recent Examples of remediate
Ocean Biomedical's management acknowledges the existence of a material weakness in its internal controls over financial reporting and is taking steps to remediate this issue.
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2024
The telecommunications companies are working very vigorously to remediate it.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
The stops and starts to the wall’s construction also left numerous regions that needed to be remediated.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
In this phase, establish baseline metrics, such as the mean time to remediate security findings, to provide a tangible measure of progress and success.
—Forrester, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2024
The telecommunications companies are working very vigorously to remediate it.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
The stops and starts to the wall’s construction also left numerous regions that needed to be remediated.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
In this phase, establish baseline metrics, such as the mean time to remediate security findings, to provide a tangible measure of progress and success.
—Forrester, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remediate
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Removing medical debt from credit reports On Jan. 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that will remove around $49 billion in medical bills from consumer credit reports, improving the credit score of more than 15 million Americans.Chad de Guzman, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
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Collaborative solutions enable organizations to enhance resilience, improve efficiency and accelerate innovation in the face of uncertainty.Appio Fragoletti, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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This year, Chanel will be investing in data collection and processes to identify evolving hotspots and drivers of carbon emissions to sharpen and refine its transition plan.Olivia Pinnock, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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That isn't all; Gaia will now become a test subject for scientists aiming to refine spacecraft and instrument control in space.Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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Part of its role was to rehabilitate drug addicts using a naval regimen—a noble yet undignified service for a generation-defining yacht.Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
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After the death in 1971 of Lin Biao, one of Mao’s key lieutenants, Hu was allowed to return to Beijing but was not fully rehabilitated into the ranks of the party elite.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
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The work is less a critique of AA’s methods than a wry commentary on art and art history’s inefficacy in remedying profound societal ills, especially those affecting Indigenous communities.Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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To remedy this, the task force's report proposed a tracer study to help understand the movement of sand in erosional areas.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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However, in a misguided attempt to correct his own errors, the real Sa-eon’s father and Kyu-jin’s husband, Paik Ui-yong (Yoo Sung-joo) forces Do-ki at gunpoint to let Sa-eon out.Kayti Burt, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
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Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Remediate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remediate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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