Thesaurus results for REPARATION(S)

reparations

noun

plural of reparation

as in damages

payment to another for a loss or injury the government instituted a program of reparations to the descendants of Native Americans who were driven from their land

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Recent Examples of reparations Questions of reparations are a fairly academic subject. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026 The letter called for accountability and reparations, and gave Redzepi 24 hours to respond. —

Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026 Presidential candidates fielded questions about reparations, or cash payments to make amends. —

Ara Rosenthal, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026 Set in the small town of Kharkams, in South Africa’s mountainous Kamiesberg region, the film follows an elderly goat herder, Hettie, who falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. —

Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026 Cincinnati's vice mayor has proposed reparations for policies that kept many Black people from owning property. —

Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2026 The company, Whakaari Management Limited, was found guilty on a health and safety charge, with a judge ordering it to pay millions of dollars in reparations and fines. —

Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026 Even so, Newsom couldn’t help but veer left on racial politics, getting himself into hot water for stoking talk of slavery reparations in California, then having to spin his way out of it by saying reparations are about more than just dollars and cents when some monetary estimates came up. —

Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 24 Feb. 2026 Sticking points include claims over territory, reparations and security guarantees. —

Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Musk is seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft — a staggering amount, that if awarded, would be one of the largest verdicts in history.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
Her experience appears to be increasingly rare, as the Russian business newspaper Kommersant estimated in a report last week that just five days of outages caused 3 billion to 5 billion rubles ($37 million to $62 million) in damages to Moscow businesses.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 17 Mar. 2026