compensate
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Lidl must also compensate Birkenstock and pay its legal fees, with the amount to be decided in separate court decisions.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
“We don’t use that number as a form of calculating how we compensate, because it can be fairly arbitrary,” Tiley said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Corporate bonds are priced at a spread, or premium, above the prevailing Treasury rate to help compensate investors for default risks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
He wondered if his talents had failed him, if he had, in trying to compensate for months of undertraining, thrown too much work at his horse at once.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Madueke goes into central midfield and Bellingham compensates by defending out wide.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
But when they are stiff, the lower back often compensates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
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
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The company will also pay $12.3 million directly to around 264,000 drivers, including 209,000 being compensated for missing or late payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Right now, I think we are being more than compensated.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The government says this is a standard procedural step and would not affect the money residents are owed, as the GLA would only receive any funds left after residents had been fully compensated.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
She had no lips at all and compensated this by stenciling on a large red, greasy mouth that now popped open in delight, now shut in sudden alarm.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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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
It also aims at "compensating all victims of this contamination" in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Were you ever able to stop compensating for your height?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
And I felt that it was the fear of their enemies that made Communists—unconsciously compensating for their fear—fight one another so doggedly and persistently.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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