Example Sentences

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Preminger had remedied this by all but stripping out Laura’s professional ambitions and practical-mindedness.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

But she thought she had remedied that by dispatching poop patrols at the end of each day.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 18, 2014

Cardiff welcomed back Craig Bellamy, their most celebrated player, whose visit to a specialist in the United States had remedied the ankle problem that kept him out for four games.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2012

One man spoke of the creaky knee that Mr. Dykshoorn had remedied.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2011

Within days, he had remedied the experimental shortcomings that had prevented Lawrence from producing mesons, and before the end of the month had captured tracks of the first artificial mesons ever seen.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik