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compensate

[kom-puhn-sayt] / ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt /




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The stakes are also high for President Xi Jinping, however, with China heavily reliant on exports in order to compensate for its wobbly domestic economy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Pike told Roberts she was deeply sorry for what she did, but did not feel anything she said could compensate for what took place.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

This selectively weakened the cells responsible for driving the disease while normal blood forming stem cells were better able to compensate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Oil producers pay anywhere from $16 to $20 a barrel to compensate crew and shipowners for the risks of running through the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

But “implicit in Peretz’s tales,” Ms. Wisse writes, “is an idea of Jewish moral potency that compensates for Jewish political impotence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Spotify’s history in the music industry is complex, and it has previously faced some criticism over how it compensates artists whose songs stream on its platform.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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

She compensates with mascara and turquoise eye shadow, so that her eyes look a bit like two peacock feathers.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Charles, who subsequently led a campaign to ensure the victims' families and dependants were fairly compensated, said his "wonderful" wife would be proud of what he fought for.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Suddenly, Leonard was a richly compensated endorser of a wireless company, a scoreboard manufacturer and an insurance firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

TotalEnergies says "strict measures have been taken to avoid, mitigate and offset" the impact on local environments and that it has compensated 99 percent of displaced households.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Investors buying a 20- or 30-year Treasury bond want to be compensated for locking up their money as inflation concerns, fiscal deficits and an ever-increasing national debt loom.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Jesse didn’t have to imagine this fate: Such people were all around him, ticked-off employees in their late thirties and forties, lots of them pleasant and adequately compensated, but few of them happy or stimulated.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

They are all issues World Athletics has sought to begin addressing with the biennial Ultimate Championship, while also compensating the athletes with record prize money.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

"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

Many are already running at very high utilization rates to meet demand while compensating for disruptions in the Middle East and Russia, leaving little spare capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

It also aims at "compensating all victims of this contamination" in Guadeloupe and Martinique.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Captain seated himself carefully, and compensating for the tremor in his hands, slowly lifted his own cup to his mouth and took a long sip.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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