re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt 
remediated; remediating; remediates
: to make (something) the target of remedial action : to provide a remedy for
… the process of removing the spent fuel, draining the holding pool, remediating the site, and treating contaminated groundwater.—
Jeff Johnson
Jeff JohnsonWork is underway … to remediate erosion on a 6000 foot section on the Gill bank of the Connecticut River.—David Detmold
David DetmoldBut here's the thing: [basketball coach John] Calipari was worried, worried enough to try all sorts of things behind the scenes to remediate his team's results at the line.—Alexander Wolff
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re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ət
archaic
: remedial
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Anil Kumar Moka, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Like almost every service in this field, Bitdefender promises to spend up to $1 million to remediate an identity theft event.
—PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Chris Wysopal, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Although anomaly detection is very good at identifying deviations from the norm and machine learning is excellent at classification, AI can’t piece together an understanding of an attack that produces a definitive set of tasks that need to be undertaken to remediate threats.
—James Blake, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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This will require collaboration across the enterprise where data owners play a key role in either remediating the sensitive data or classifying them as false positives.
—Anil Kumar Moka, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Like almost every service in this field, Bitdefender promises to spend up to $1 million to remediate an identity theft event.
—PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
By maintaining an inventory of the entire software ecosystem through an open ecosystem approach, ASPM enables organizations to effectively triage and remediate risks, ultimately delivering a better return on their security investments.
—Chris Wysopal, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Although anomaly detection is very good at identifying deviations from the norm and machine learning is excellent at classification, AI can’t piece together an understanding of an attack that produces a definitive set of tasks that need to be undertaken to remediate threats.
—James Blake, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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remediate
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re·me·di·ate
ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt
: to make the target of remedial action
the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to remediate the pollution at or on the site—General Statutes of Connecticut
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