restitute

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Recent Examples of restitute He was irked when a woman came to a public talk and argued that they should be restituted. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023 On a visit to Burkina Faso in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the magnitude of African artifacts in European museums and vowed to restitute many from France. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2023 The majority of descendants live in the United States and Israel, but the museum has already or is in the process of also restituting silver pieces to France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico. Kirsten Grieshaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2023 Following a lengthy legal battle, a Dutch museum restituted the painting to the family last year. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for restitute 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for restitute
Verb
  • But none of this was enough to carry her burden of showing that the defendant paid the $50,000 to reimburse her for her medical expenses.
    Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Under the contract, the Department of Defense would reimburse Boeing for spare parts.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Governments can also do much to compensate for an overall decline in the traditional working-age population.
    Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Trump, who quickly disavowed the individual, sought to compensate for controversy by taking the stage in Pittsburgh on Monday with the son of Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente, in the city where his late father once played for the Pirates.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • This protection refunds your entry back up to $20 if your contest loses.
    Tim van Straten, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Sales estimates were at just 25,000 copies, and Sony had to then refund all of those.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Advertisement On Monday, Treasury yields gave back a chunk of those gains.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Distance yourself from anyone who doesn’t give back or tries to take advantage of you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Restitute.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/restitute. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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