corrector
Americannoun
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correctors
plural
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a person or thing that corrects issues or concerns.
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a cosmetic product designed to obscure or reduce color differences in the skin.
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There are lots of posture corrector straps, back braces and chairs that promise to change your life but "you just need to be moving around in the day".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
Guided by KHAOS, Carl futzed with the blind-spot corrector on Hayden’s Goggles, which made Hayden take a solid noggin-thumper in the hallway.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2020
If they chucked in a little foundation and some colour corrector for the weekend – well, I wouldn’t say no.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2018
The second microscope includes a chromatic-aberration corrector, a complex assembly of magnetic and electric lenses intended to remove blurriness caused by variations in electron energy.
From Nature ● Jul. 10, 2013
When at Basle, Erasmus procured him employment as a corrector of the press with Frobenius.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
While there are lots of braces and posture correctors on the market to wear on the go, the chiropractors we spoke with don’t recommend relying on one.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2018
Visual correctors might tighten, swell or numb your skin.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2012
Blemishes, meanwhile, face the likes of healing gels, blemish balm creams and dark-spot correctors.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2011
“But now the paper is nought, the composers boyes, and the correctors unlearned.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2011
He also assisted in the Universal History, and was one of the correctors of the Arabic New Testament issued by the S.P.C.K.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
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