compensate
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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
The legislation also codifies a program to compensate ranchers when they lose livestock to wolves or suffer indirect harm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Bianco is keen to stress that goods inflation is definitely a problem, but his argument is that these chunky 5.25% bond yields compensate investors for that risk.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
This may do a little to compensate for our hurt feelings.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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But that’s only correct if the interest rate compensates for Treasury’s cost of funds and the associated risk of IMF lending from the quota.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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
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
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He also was compensated for a mandatory "waiting period" following his departure from government.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
If an insurer becomes insolvent, annuity policyholders are compensated through a state-based, industry-funded system of guarantee associations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
Uber drivers are compensated at varying rates in different countries, and many have complained of not receiving adequate compensation for their work and the use of their vehicles.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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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 is compensating for the stagnant auto market by making power-chip solutions and optical cable for data centers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
FitzRoy’s volumes did not get as positive a reception as Charles’s, so the publisher released Darwin’s volume as a separate book without telling him or compensating him financially.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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