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
First, a closure order usually stays in place for months, if not years, to allow the land to heal and because post-fire hazards need to be remediated before the public returns, a point forest service officials have stressed many times.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
The city’s health department ordered the school district to remediate the hazard, but the scope of the problem turned out to be much larger than a single building.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
And as Robert Lemos wrote for Dark Reading, most developers have adopted AI assistants to help with coding and improve output, but most are also creating vulnerabilities that take longer to remediate.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
The Park District has worked since late last year to remediate the site, including several buildings, of environmental hazards and to demolish structures.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
The city’s health department ordered the school district to remediate the hazard, but the scope of the problem turned out to be much larger than a single building.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 June 2025
And as Robert Lemos wrote for Dark Reading, most developers have adopted AI assistants to help with coding and improve output, but most are also creating vulnerabilities that take longer to remediate.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
The Park District has worked since late last year to remediate the site, including several buildings, of environmental hazards and to demolish structures.
—Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remediate
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Ramsay lamented the lack of a clean sheet and cited a few decision-making errors at various points in the contest that need to improve as the Loons continue their evolution, but couldn’t deny the general quality of play from his club.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
13 July 2025
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The $28 million project aims to improve traffic flow on the busy thoroughfare and, hopefully, keep people from using local streets to get around freeway traffic.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 July 2025
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Brands need to do a better job in their data analysis to refine their segmentation models so very important customers are recognized and treated as such.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Raised in Phoenix, refined over three years at Dayton University, Holmes had never sustained a major health setback.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
13 July 2025
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Community Action and Human Services is merging with Juvenile Services, which helps rehabilitate youthful offenders.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
12 July 2025
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These concentrations increased as Mexico worked to rehabilitate a major pipeline that is supposed to divert wastewater from the Tijuana River to treatment plants on both sides of the border.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
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Some people use pharmacological or surgical treatments to remedy side effects from the disease.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
17 July 2025
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A lot of code generation can be tedious and repetitive; agents can remedy that problem.—
Clint Boulton,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The title was corrected in Week 4, when the record sprinted from No. 35 to No. 25.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
14 July 2025
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This means Single-bit errors are automatically corrected in hardware and Double-bit errors are detected and flagged, but not corrected.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 July 2025
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“Remediate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remediate. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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