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
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
The editor or corrector of the press has mistakenly applied this to the first anchorage.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney
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
Their correctors and their letters evinced as little delicacy of choice.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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