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corrector

American  
[ker-ekt-er] / kərˈɛkt ər /

noun

  • correctors
    plural
  1. a person or thing that corrects issues or concerns.

  2. 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

Which brings me to what may be the most devastating revelation for the enthusiastic corrector: WE KNOW.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2014

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

In 514 he was ordinary consul, and at a later date possibly corrector of his native province.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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 never cared to see them acted; he bullied even his printers and correctors; he cast a glove down in defiance of his critics.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

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