redemptive
adjective
re·demp·tive
ri-ˈdem(p)-tiv 
: of, relating to, or bringing about redemption
redemptive suffering
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And Spencer Torkelson is back after a redemptive spring.
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
If the Lubavitcher community had been struck by something on the scale of the Judeans’ loss of the Temple and their enslavement, what are now marginal, hallucinatory visions of the rebbe would almost certainly take on a more declarative, redemptive form.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The rawness of Moonlight’s pain and the thrill of its redemptive power are undiminished.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
This narrative of gendered injustice and the redemptive power of feminist history has an almost mythical force.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
If the Lubavitcher community had been struck by something on the scale of the Judeans’ loss of the Temple and their enslavement, what are now marginal, hallucinatory visions of the rebbe would almost certainly take on a more declarative, redemptive form.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
The rawness of Moonlight’s pain and the thrill of its redemptive power are undiminished.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
This narrative of gendered injustice and the redemptive power of feminist history has an almost mythical force.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Redemptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redemptive. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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