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
The arch of Augustus bears a subsequent inscription in honour of Constantine, added after his death by L. Turcius Secundus, corrector Flaminiae et Piceni, who also constructed a colonnade above the arch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 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
A few breathings are primâ manu, and many accents by two later correctors.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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