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compensate

[kom-puhn-seyt] / ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt /




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In addition to reinstatement, the arbitrator ordered the newspaper to compensate Attiah with full back-pay and benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

U.S. plants are running at a pace not seen in decades, yet the increased productivity still isn’t enough to compensate for the supplies that have been lost.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

If the CMA concludes that the firms have broken the law, it can fine them or order them to compensate customers.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Instead of simply eating more pollen to compensate for missing nutrients, bees may reduce their intake when another nutrient becomes excessive.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

To compensate for this, you must write the part a major sixth higher than your C part.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Fortune is among the publishers Perplexity compensates for the use of its content.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

What it lacks in explosivity and pacing, “The Complex” at times compensates for in tension, tenderness and tenacity.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

MPs heard the Horizon Shortfall Scheme, which compensates some victims, was "broken".

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

In other words, when incoming visual signals are reduced, the brain compensates by pulling stored images and experiences from memory.

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2026

Likewise, insurance policies with broad coverage which compensates for any mishap are apt to be cheaper in the long run than insurance for a particular disease or a particular trip.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Murrill’s opposition doesn’t necessarily mean that Brooks and other exonerees won’t eventually be compensated.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

The attacks cost him about $20,000, and Wildberries hasn’t compensated him, he said in an interview, adding that it had granted a three-month deferment on loan payments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

“This agreement with Merlin ensures participating artists are credited and compensated, and that every creation drives listeners back to the original work,” Charlie Hellman, Spotify’s global head of music, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

In negotiations it has wanted to ensure that the tens of thousands of civil servants that its government employed in Gaza prior to the war should be compensated or given new jobs.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Surely, such generosity more than compensated for the low pay.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"The nervous system adopts a safety-first approach, compensating for age-related changes by favoring stability over performance," says Associate Professor Immink, Lead of the Active Lives Research Program within the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Then there are ideas for compensating job losers such as wage insurance or “universal basic income.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

“Creators make their living generating content. The campaign believes in compensating people for their time and work product and has paid creators to generate content,” Liao said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

A monetary framework that lets falling production costs show up as lower prices for consumers, rather than offsetting them with compensating stimulus, has intellectual support and is worth discussing.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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