corrective

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The council added it had "already taken corrective action" and asked anyone who still needed a ticket rescinded to email.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

For less than two dollars, Jena left with a pair of corrective glasses -- and a clear vision of his future.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

And this is a really useful corrective to the notion that every single time there’s smoke, there’s fire.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

The irony is that AI has widely been viewed as a major corrective to high inflation.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Public Allies was meant as a corrective to this, a means of widening the horizon for young people thinking about careers.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama