Thesaurus results for RESTITUTIONS

restitutions

noun

plural of restitution

as in reparations

payment to another for a loss or injury sought restitution from the other driver's insurance company for lost wages

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Recent Examples of restitutions The Swiss handover is the latest in a steady stream of restitutions by European museums to Nigeria. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 Exceptions include federal tax liens, qualified domestic relations orders, and criminal fines or restitutions. — True Tamplin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said his office has a strong track record of fighting Medicaid fraud and has won more than 300 convictions and $80 million in judgments and restitutions during his time in office. — Audrey McAvoy, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026

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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

Definition of reparations

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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

Definition of damages

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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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