Thesaurus results for REPARATIONS

reparations

noun

plural of reparation

as in damages

payment to another for a loss or injury the government instituted a program of reparations to the descendants of Native Americans who were driven from their land

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Recent Examples of reparations African leaders agreed on a framework to demand reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, as well as debt relief. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 June 2026 Has Alyssa Milano made a public donation to the reparations fund? — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026 Positions on reparations are mixed in countries that would contribute. — ABC News, 19 June 2026 But for decades, federal and state governments have rejected even the notion of studying reparations. — Marcus Anthony Hunter, Time, 19 June 2026 Collective, which advocates for reparations, land returns for Native Americans, bonds for newborns and a universal basic income. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 22 June 2026 The sides also compromised on financial relief for Iran, which initially demanded at least $500 billion in reparations, one of the regional officials said. — E. Eduardo Castillo, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Alameda County supervisors voted Tuesday to create a permanent reparations committee for Black residents, moving a sweeping set of recommendations from study to the harder question of implementation. — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 1 July 2026 This vessel has a controversial past, built by Nazi Germany in 1935 as SSS *Horst Wessel*, named after a Nazi martyr, before being taken as war reparations by the US. — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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In the lawsuit, Flagg is asking for injunctive relief, damages, profits and attorneys' fees, arguing Swift's use of the phrase could create consumer confusion and damage the value of her existing brand.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 6 July 2026
According to the complaint, the Barbours are seeking personal injury damages for their physical injuries, and survival and wrongful death damages for Avila's estate.

— Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

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This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.

— Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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