compensate
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With London under pressure to formally apologise for its pivotal part in the trade and compensate Caribbean nations, he pledged to have "difficult conversations to safeguard the Commonwealth for the future".
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
But Tuesday’s 136-129 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers reinforced that even one of the best offensive backcourts in the league can totally compensate for a championship-winning defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Lee called the results a “bad combination,” adding that “the continued cash burn gets harder to justify without monetization or the core business growing to compensate for it.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Although these approaches can help compensate for degradation or shield the surface, they also introduce additional material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
“The more I thought about it,” Bloom recalled, “the more I enjoyed the prospect of telling Mike De Young that no less a sum could compensate me for my sacrifice in leaving San Francisco.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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To counteract the problem, the team created a calibration method that compensates for these unwanted shifts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
The question is whether the additional business compensates for the lower price and any extra infrastructure required.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Madueke goes into central midfield and Bellingham compensates by defending out wide.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
However, musically, it is quite advanced in that as you gradually silence the letter of the word B-I-N-G-O, the brain compensates for the missing pitch and rhythm using the inner ear.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The researchers examined whether the spiders displayed "sleep rebound," meaning they compensated for interrupted sleep by increasing their subsequent sleep.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
That included a scene in which actors playing A24’s French and Nandan meet with an actor playing Evans, who asks to be compensated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In addition, 71 percent of claims were compensated either partially or in full, with that figure rising to 93 percent for homes where the damage exceeded 150,000 euros.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Times asked the center’s attorney if Troupe was compensated for work outside of his board duties, but she did not respond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Called torque, this reaction must be compensated for by your feet pushing on the rudder pedals.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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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
But these new policies could easily overwhelm any compensating values of living in certain U.S. cities and states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
They had been compensating for it by aiming our rockets at a small angle against whatever direction the wind was coming.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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