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• To correct (or eliminate, or remedy) the trouble, ...
• Sandpaper will cure the trouble.
• In steel casting this defect is not easily rectified.
• The fault should be remedied.
• It is best to use the finest sandpaper that will remove the surface imperfections.
• In an attempt to fix the defects of the theory he used ...
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