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Six example sentences with redress, each labelled with its topic.
The airline offered each stranded passenger redress of four hundred dollars, which most accepted rather than wait for hearings.
Business
Families displaced by the reservoir waited thirty years for redress, and the final checks barely covered a single season's harvest.
Politics
The clinic paid redress to patients whose records were leaked, though several said no check could undo the embarrassment.
Medicine
The court ordered redress of twelve thousand dollars for the ruined orchard, roughly what the trees would have earned in five seasons.
Law
Banks paid billions in redress to customers sold insurance they could never claim on, often decades after the policies.
Finance
In 1988 Congress voted redress of twenty thousand dollars to each surviving citizen interned during the war.
History
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