as in damages
payment to another for a loss or injury
the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard
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as in avenges
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for
the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified
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Recent Examples of redresses
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
There are so many reasons to be mad; the mostly baseless and endless attacks on higher education, the dismantling of life-saving research, ICE, the subverting of policy that redresses shameful social harms.
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Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
There are so many reasons to be mad; the mostly baseless and endless attacks on higher education, the dismantling of life-saving research, ICE, the subverting of policy that redresses shameful social harms.
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Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
There are so many reasons to be mad; the mostly baseless and endless attacks on higher education, the dismantling of life-saving research, ICE, the subverting of policy that redresses shameful social harms.
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Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redresses
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In the lawsuit, Flagg is asking for injunctive relief, damages, profits and attorneys' fees, arguing Swift's use of the phrase could create consumer confusion and damage the value of her existing brand.
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According to the complaint, the Barbours are seeking personal injury damages for their physical injuries, and survival and wrongful death damages for Avila's estate.
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Patrick Henry’s win against the Western League foe Dons avenges a 13-3 second-round playoff loss to Cathedral Catholic in the double-elimination playoffs.
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Competing alongside two Americans, Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly), Lee methodically dispatches Han’s henchmen and avenges his sister’s death in the process.
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Alameda County supervisors voted Tuesday to create a permanent reparations committee for Black residents, moving a sweeping set of recommendations from study to the harder question of implementation.
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This vessel has a controversial past, built by Nazi Germany in 1935 as SSS *Horst Wessel*, named after a Nazi martyr, before being taken as war reparations by the US.
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This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.
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Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.
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“Redresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redresses. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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