compromise
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Compromise is likely to be needed, on both salary - Maguire is one of United's highest-paid players and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is determined to drive costs down - and maybe contract length.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
With federal troop withdrawal as part of the Compromise of 1877 to make Rutherford Hayes president, Reconstruction-era optimism ended.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025
Compromise and consensus — the animating creeds of our commonweal — have ebbed away.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025
Compromise, we've heard, is the backbone of any lasting relationship.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024
The Compromise of 1790 is most famous for averting a political crisis that many statesmen of the time considered a threat to the survival of the infant republic.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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