How to Use remediate in a Sentence

remediate

1 of 2 verb
  • Tablas Creek learned the hard way that sheep on wet clay soils cause compaction that takes years to remediate.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Even after all of the pipes are remediated, there will still be bacteria in the runoff that lands on the beach.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • By then, the world would hopefully have a few options to remediate any new issues.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The land would need to be cleaned up and remediated to a much higher and more expensive standard.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2024
  • It has been remediated, but his wife and two children remained at their rental for several months.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Some was remediated by the city and awaits proposals, but the train tracks remain an issue.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Dozens of sites have been remediated over the past few decades, leaving seven remaining.
    — Theo Greenly, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Most services in this field promise to spend up to $1 million to remediate an identity theft event.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • Next, begin to just hand water that once a day and get that mulch to start to break down, and that will remediate your soil and create a nice healthy blank slate for you.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 8 June 2022
  • Workers in safety gear aerated the water to try to remediate it.
    — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Six parcels have been remediated to the state’s standards, officials said.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Once more is understood, more can be remediated.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The city plans to use $2 million from the fund to remediate the land where Shingle Mountain sat for years.
    — Dallas News, 11 May 2022
  • Just trying to remediate that for one product could be an incredibly onerous task.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
  • To remediate this recall, dealers will replace the rearview camera harness and camera for free.
    — Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And many residents often have no resources to remediate the damage.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The cost to remediate a driveway just 15 meters long was staggering.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One of the purest freshwater systems on Earth would be damaged — and it cannot be remediated once it’s poisoned.
    — Russ Feingold, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Not out of negligence, but because there is simply no scalable mechanism to track and remediate them in real time.
    — Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Ames said her family left their home right after the tests and lived with extended family for two months while their house was remediated.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Against Wyck’s objections, Tom gives Kurt the nod to remediate the black mold and open the inn in time for tourist season.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Code enforcement agencies can force landlords to remediate clear instances of mold instead of just addressing the source of it.
    — jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • While some of those brands have been responsive to the findings and worked to remediate the situation, others have remained silent.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • SREs then swing into action to remediate and get the application back to life.
    — Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The plant itself, the milling site, and the Weldon Spring site are deemed remediated by the government.
    — Michael Phillis and Jim Salter, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2023
  • Many Altadena residents who are rebuilding or remediating their homes are not sure what to do about their soil.
    — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The closure is expected to last a minimum of three weeks to remediate smoke damage and repair the sprinkler system but could last months.
    — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The state awarded almost $10 million to remediate it.
    — Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Schrock said Hilco is committed to transparency and safety on plans to demolish and remediate the site.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Mold issues are costly to remediate and can also impact indoor air quality and overall health.
    — Angelika Pokovba, Martha Stewart, 25 Apr. 2026

remediate

2 of 2 adjective
  • Keeping track of roadkill helps scientists locate, study and help remediate stretches of road where wildlife are in the greatest danger.
    — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Beyond the contamination in schools, the city has ongoing programs to test for and remediate lead in its aging homes.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
  • Professionals have access to the right antimicrobial agents that will best remediate mold, Uribe says.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The Harlem cases sprang up in late July and prompted officials to work to remediate issues with a dozen cooling towers across five zip codes.
    — Brandon Girod, USA Today, 6 Dec. 2025
  • In co-ops, building-wide issues are the responsibility of the board to address and remediate, but a good managing agent is critical.
    — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the concerns on our agenda with TikTok will include safeguards such as policies and tools to prevent and remediate hate speech and bullying.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 2 May 2024
  • What developers would like in these scenarios is a way to find the root cause of security issues and be able to prioritize actions to remediate system health.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The work dovetails with that of local government agencies to quickly detect and remediate contamination of beaches.
    — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Fraud-fighting tools and chargeback alerts can help merchants monitor, detect and remediate fraudulent activities.
    — Allen Kopelman, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The malware, attributed to the Kremlin, is designed to disable safety systems that detect and remediate unsafe conditions.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Some national news outlets have in recent years invested in internal cybersecurity teams to detect and remediate threats.
    — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • The White House said the plan would create thousands of jobs and remediate pollution, including greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
    — Matthew Daly, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The port planned to use it to clean up and remediate polluted areas, build facilities for handling the turbine parts, dredge the waterway and build a larger wharf capable of handling pieces of steel longer than a football field.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Thanks to its cushioned insole, Vionic's Wilma Bootie offers exceptional arch support that can help remediate discomfort and strain.
    — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The role of modern DLP tools is to minimize the time to identify, validate and remediate incidents of exposure.
    — Rich Vibert, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • As the one-year anniversary of the fires approached, Wessels still didn't know how much State Farm would pay to remediate lead contamination in his Altadena house.
    — Michael Copley, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Microbes could be redesigned to remediate poisonous perchlorates that plague the soil, opening the way for Eden-like gardens across expanding oases, and releasing oxygen in the process to slowly build up the atmosphere.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • With access to data at our fingertips, CFOs can adjust policies, remediate issues, and respond to incidents with confidence and speed.
    — Leslie Milne, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • This integration allows users to identify and remediate risks across a wide spectrum of security concerns, delivering rapid return on investment.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Oil and gas operators are assessed various fees that contribute millions of dollars in new funding each year to plug and remediate orphan wells, and this year a new fee will contribute another $5 million for marginal wells.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
  • Assembly Bill 1167 requires full bonding to properly plug and remediate idle or abandoned wells when oil companies transfer ownership.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Assembly Bill 1167 requires full bonding to properly plug and remediate idle or abandoned wells when oil companies transfer ownership.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This is the only biological technique currently available to remediate airborne pollutants.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 19 July 2023
  • Industrial hemp helps remediate soil and Brown favors organic and regenerative methods over pesticide-reliant crops such as tobacco.
    — Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Bitdefender doesn’t try to replace LifeLock or similar identity theft protection services that aim to detect and remediate identity theft.
    — PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Over time, this should facilitate easier root cause analysis, help remediate issues quickly and ultimately deliver a self-healing capability.
    — Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Work directly with developers to implement secure coding practices and remediate security issues.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Organizations must operate with a clear understanding of these risks and implement controls to increase visibility into their exposure and remediate risks those with access to corporate networks pose.
    — David Endler, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The need to check for and remediate accessibility errors may be higher for e-commerce properties than other more static digital assets but the pay-off for making remediations is also more immediate and measurable.
    — Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Risk managers and compliance teams need to work with supplier managers to engage their upstream suppliers, remediate compliance exposures and document them for regulators, and transfer risks to the insurance marketplace.
    — Evan Smith, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

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