Corrective
adjective
Meant to fix or improve something.
The teacher gave corrective feedback on students' work.
Often appears as...
- corrective action
- corrective measures
noun
A thing that is intended to rectify a situation or condition.
Eye glasses are a common corrective for vision problems.
Often appears as...
- use a corrective
- need a corrective
adjective
Meant to fix or improve something.
The teacher gave corrective feedback on students' work.
Often appears as...
- corrective action
- corrective measures
noun
A thing that is intended to rectify a situation or condition.
Eye glasses are a common corrective for vision problems.
Often appears as...
- use a corrective
- need a corrective
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Pro Tip 1/3Fixing Errors
Use 'corrective' to describe actions aimed at fixing mistakes or problems.
The software update included corrective patches for the security issues.
Pro Tip 2/3Improving Performance
'Corrective' can refer to enhancements, not just fixing what's wrong.
The athlete followed a corrective training program to improve his endurance.
Pro Tip 3/3Proactive Intent
'Corrective' implies deliberate effort to address an issue, often before it gets worse.
The manager's corrective guidance helped prevent further mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/3Fixing Errors
Use 'corrective' to describe actions aimed at fixing mistakes or problems.
The software update included corrective patches for the security issues.
Pro Tip 2/3Improving Performance
'Corrective' can refer to enhancements, not just fixing what's wrong.
The athlete followed a corrective training program to improve his endurance.
Pro Tip 3/3Proactive Intent
'Corrective' implies deliberate effort to address an issue, often before it gets worse.
The manager's corrective guidance helped prevent further mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/3Fixing Errors
Use 'corrective' to describe actions aimed at fixing mistakes or problems.
The software update included corrective patches for the security issues.
Pro Tip 2/3Improving Performance
'Corrective' can refer to enhancements, not just fixing what's wrong.
The athlete followed a corrective training program to improve his endurance.
Pro Tip 3/3Proactive Intent
'Corrective' implies deliberate effort to address an issue, often before it gets worse.
The manager's corrective guidance helped prevent further mistakes.
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
They can even taste with their wings. One of the most sophisticated sensors a fly has is a structure called the halteres. The halteres are actually gyroscopes. These devices beat back and forth about 200 hertz during flight, and the animal can use them to sense its body rotation and initiate very, very fast corrective maneuvers.
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Political common ground...
sent out this letter saying, we will have no safe spaces. There will be no critique of micro-aggression. If you get your feelings hurt, well, welcome to the world of education. I do think that policy -- which is being embraced by a lot of people on the left, by the way -- is just a corrective to what's happened.
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Why societies collapse PIPE...
the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action? It seems incredible in the past. In the future, it'll seem incredible what we are doing today. And so I've been trying to develop a hierarchical set of considerations
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Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
game very relaxed so we'll just listen up for the radio and then just see if we don't pick something up going up this road here it's corrective to me but they're not alarm call for something else like a number or something yeah
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
I hate to be negative about it, but maybe we'll all just become more idiotic. Yeah, can you picture any corrective that you could do with scripted, fictional work? I think a lot about the fact that television has the power
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Josh Silver demos...
Glasses are not very expensive. They're quite plentiful. The problem is, there aren't enough eye care professionals in the world to use the model of the delivery of corrective eyewear that we have in the developed world.
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What we'll learn about...
for corrective surgery So when you're already here, it's not that big of a step. So the next step, that happened in the 2030s, was that it's not just about getting through the skull. To measure the activity of neurons,
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The function and fashion...
on the perfect design. They didn't really have sides, which are also called temples, or arms, until about the 17th century. Modern-day eyeglasses feature a pair of rims that hold corrective lenses,
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How does laser eye...
or pulling a divided image together. And thankfully, modern eye surgeons can sculpt the cornea with far less invasive tools. In corrective laser eye surgery, surgeons rely on excimer lasers.
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Tech that helps the...
we take for granted in how a good site some of us have corrective lenses but no big deal we get used to it but when our
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Michael Dickinson: How a...
They can even taste with their wings. One of the most sophisticated sensors a fly has is a structure called the halteres. The halteres are actually gyroscopes. These devices beat back and forth about 200 hertz during flight, and the animal can use them to sense its body rotation and initiate very, very fast corrective maneuvers.
Video examples
Political common ground...
sent out this letter saying, we will have no safe spaces. There will be no critique of micro-aggression. If you get your feelings hurt, well, welcome to the world of education. I do think that policy -- which is being embraced by a lot of people on the left, by the way -- is just a corrective to what's happened.
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Why societies collapse PIPE...
the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action? It seems incredible in the past. In the future, it'll seem incredible what we are doing today. And so I've been trying to develop a hierarchical set of considerations
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Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
game very relaxed so we'll just listen up for the radio and then just see if we don't pick something up going up this road here it's corrective to me but they're not alarm call for something else like a number or something yeah
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Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi...
I hate to be negative about it, but maybe we'll all just become more idiotic. Yeah, can you picture any corrective that you could do with scripted, fictional work? I think a lot about the fact that television has the power
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Josh Silver demos...
Glasses are not very expensive. They're quite plentiful. The problem is, there aren't enough eye care professionals in the world to use the model of the delivery of corrective eyewear that we have in the developed world.
Video examples
What we'll learn about...
for corrective surgery So when you're already here, it's not that big of a step. So the next step, that happened in the 2030s, was that it's not just about getting through the skull. To measure the activity of neurons,
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The function and fashion...
on the perfect design. They didn't really have sides, which are also called temples, or arms, until about the 17th century. Modern-day eyeglasses feature a pair of rims that hold corrective lenses,
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How does laser eye...
or pulling a divided image together. And thankfully, modern eye surgeons can sculpt the cornea with far less invasive tools. In corrective laser eye surgery, surgeons rely on excimer lasers.
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Tech that helps the...
we take for granted in how a good site some of us have corrective lenses but no big deal we get used to it but when our
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John Joseph Adams
American Author
I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm an editor. One of these things is true despite the fact that I'm an editor. One of them has nothing to do with me being an editor.
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Lee Smith
American Author
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
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Joe Harris
American Athlete
There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.
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Eric Metaxas
American Author
Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
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Harold Bloom
American Critic
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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Andrew Jackson
American President
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
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Thurgood Marshall
American Judge
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
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Hugh Ross
Canadian Scientist
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Kristi Yamaguchi
American Athlete
Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
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John Joseph Adams
American Author
I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm an editor. One of these things is true despite the fact that I'm an editor. One of them has nothing to do with me being an editor.
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Lee Smith
American Author
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
Quote examples
Joe Harris
American Athlete
There's a tendency, guys get really excited and go through practice, and they want to stay for an extra hour after and do these workouts. What you should be doing is getting in the cold tub or getting your corrective exercises in with your strength coach, little things like that which can help you in the long run.
Quote examples
Eric Metaxas
American Author
Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
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Harold Bloom
American Critic
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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Andrew Jackson
American President
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Quote examples
Thurgood Marshall
American Judge
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Quote examples
Hugh Ross
Canadian Scientist
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Kristi Yamaguchi
American Athlete
Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.
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