rectifies
- present tense form of rectify (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“As as of today, he has flown back to Chicago, I think, just until the situation rectifies itself.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023
The bill also rectifies conflicting circuit court decisions by clarifying that an attempt or conspiracy to commit an offense involving physical force meets the legal definition of a crime of violence.
From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2022
And Bennet's departure provides a rare and much-needed opportunity to rethink the role of opinion within news organizations everywhere, in a way that rectifies them.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2020
Director Ke Guo’s “Twenty Two” rectifies that, giving voice to the surviving “comfort women” in this Chinese documentary.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2017
Wilkerson not only rectifies the world’s ignorance about the Great Migration, but with twelve hundred interviews and crystalline prose she makes us understand it in its full human reality.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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