compensate for
Example Sentences
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The dancing isn’t always smooth, the costumes struck me as a road show idea of New York cool, and the acting didn’t do much to compensate for some of the book’s less subtle moments.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Even a multimillion-dollar payout pool cannot compensate for what they see as a fundamentally unfair adjudicative process.
From Slate • May 28, 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
The government has promised to compensate for the swathes of trees cut down by planting seedlings in Haryana -- a northern state next to New Delhi.
From Barron's • May 18, 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
