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remedial
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  • I once asked Mrs. Brown if the California boys could come into the schoolhouse and work with some of the kids on remedial reading.   (source)
  • Of course, with intensive remedial potions and charms and a bit of luck, we can produce some improvement.†   (source)
  • I sat in the hall with my back against the wall and read my American history textbook (kind of remedial reading for me, to be honest) until Alaska showed up and sat down next to me.†   (source)
  • I consume this, noting every intersection and side street, but it's remedial stuff.†   (source)
  • One fine morning at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, George and Harold had just gotten out of their fourth-grade remedial gym class when they saw a big sign in the hallway.†   (source)
  • Mitzvah-gathering, mensch remedial training.†   (source)
  • OK, what I'll say is, I'm fully aware that my overdraft is slightly larger than it should be, and I'm planning to take remedial action within the next few days.†   (source)
  • You are now entering the sixth month of our one-year remedial lesson in life.†   (source)
  • Carmela's son had spent a year in the basket-weaving class and another year in remedial reading and a third year falling down a flight of stairs and recovering in bed, three meals a day in bed, and he lived with his grandparents now, upstate.†   (source)
  • Liberation theology, with its emphasis on the horrors of poverty and on redressing them in the here and now, its emphasis on service and remediation, seemed to fit the circumstances of Haiti.†   (source)
  • Remedial training may be in order for some of you," he deadpanned, wagging a finger in the direction of several plump women sharing a tartan blanket.†   (source)
  • The class was Remedial Speech, and I accepted my own presence there if only because of the very trouble I had pronouncing it.†   (source)
  • Mom's job was teaching remedial reading in an elementary school in Davy, a coal-mining camp twelve miles north of Welch.   (source)
    remedial = to fix deficiency in
  • Malfoy mouthed, 'Remedial Potions?' at Harry behind Snape's back before following him.†   (source)
  • Potter is here for a little remedial Potions.†   (source)
  • If anybody asks, you are taking remedial Potions.†   (source)
  • 'You take remedial Potions!' asked Zacharias Smith superciliously, having cornered Harry in the Entrance Hall after lunch.†   (source)
  • Til let you know in the usual way when the next one is,' Harry said over and over again, 'but I can't do it tonight, I've got to go to — er — remedial Potions.'†   (source)
  • At least he had twenty-four more hours in which to practise; he knew he ought to feel grateful for the narrow escape, though it was hard that it came at the expense of Malfoy telling the whole school that he needed remedial Potions.†   (source)
  • Some might say remedial infantry.†   (source)
  • She'd discovered that many of the students in her class weren't as far along as they should have been in most of the core subjects, and she'd had to scale down the plans a bit and incorporate more remedial work.†   (source)
  • "Remedial action" sounds very good.†   (source)
  • And the remedial measures they think up are hardly adequate for a common cold.†   (source)
  • But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.†   (source)
  • In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps, and do not believe in remedial force, in the power of change and reform.†   (source)
  • He takes remedial courses, and his classmates are nitwits.†   (source)
  • Also, all remedial classrooms are on the B floor, which is below the surface of the earth.†   (source)
  • I have no idea why he takes remedial courses, and Earl's decision making is a thing that would need like twenty books to explore, so I'm not going into it here.†   (source)
  • In the next place, the abuses would often have completed their mischievous effects before the remedial provision would be applied.†   (source)
  • If the legislative authority, which possesses so many means of operating on the motives of the other departments, should be able to gain to its interest either of the others, or even one third of its members, the remaining department could derive no advantage from its remedial provision.†   (source)
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