How to Use corrective in a Sentence

corrective

adjective
Definition of correctivenext
Synonyms for correctivenext
  • She had corrective surgery on her knee this past summer.
  • People with bad eyesight usually need to wear corrective lenses, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses.
  • The list of corrective to-do’s for teachers (and parents) is long.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The speaker has no role in putting out any kind of corrective action.
    — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Neither hears the truth, as often as is wholesome, and both suffer for the want of the corrective.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But, to achieve any kind of major corrective action, emissions must be slashed by the end of the decade.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, Sarah Bowman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The Chase Bank branch quickly took corrective steps after the tragedy.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 8 June 2024
  • The state and city negotiated the corrective plan that held off the threat of a total state takeover of BPS.
    — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Some of this is just corrective action by the current regime.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2022
  • In 2021, they were told to submit a corrective action plan.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • And the intended response has to be both durable and corrective.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
  • To me, the nightly BirdCast map is a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
    — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • To me, the nightly BirdCast map has come to mean a great deal, not least a corrective to our human-centric view of the planet.
    — Ty Burr, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Dan explored the idea of corrective surgery to fix his injured back but the results of those kinds of surgeries were often hit and miss.
    — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The texture of their lives offers a corrective to erasure.
    — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • As part of a corrective action plan to avoid a state takeover, JCPS must tweak its assignment plan by fall 2020.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2020
  • This would be a corrective to that, as well as a much-deserved coronation.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Runion said that even after corrective jaw surgery that cost tens of thousands of dollars, some of her teeth may still be at risk.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Instead, the officials funded some of the research that led to the corrective eye surgery technique.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There are many ways to improve a person, from vaccines to corrective eye surgery.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2018
  • There was no other word for it, as if a corrective current flowed from the house through the dusty tile and into her hand and, truly, her whole body.
    — Dana Spiotta, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Dean and Hines would not provide the further corrective action made by the district and Hamilton.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The surgery didn't go as planned, so Joe had corrective surgery that resulted in seven screws and a plate being put in his left foot.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In 2002, Eugenie was told she had curvature of the spine and would need corrective surgery.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 12 Oct. 2018
  • If the pilot does not (or is unable to) take corrective action the autopilot takes over and flies the plane onto a safe flight path.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
  • Currently, of course, the corrective price action has been felt by some areas, but not all.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 24 Dec. 2024
  • At its best, the Christian church has been a corrective to people’s loneliness.
    — Laura Turner, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The most basic corrective measure is to insulate the lines to prevent the dripping.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Up until now, the standard treatment for myopia was to prescribe corrective lenses.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The company was informed that allergen ingredient information was missing during an inspection, and the recall was part of a corrective plan to address the gap.
    — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 5 Feb. 2025

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