compensate for
Example Sentences
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Players like Modric demonstrate that football intelligence often can compensate for a decline in physical speed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
Even a multimillion-dollar payout pool cannot compensate for what they see as a fundamentally unfair adjudicative process.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
In early 2022, after more than a year of underreporting customs values, First Brands paid the Chinese subsidiary a $40 million lump sum to compensate for the artificially depressed payments, the lawsuit said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Investors are underestimating the inflationary threat to both stock and bond markets, and yields must rise to compensate for that risk, say strategists at the hedge fund Zweig-DiMenna.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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