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
“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
Plus, surging labor and input costs have left mom-and-pop convenience stores with no choice but to raise fuel prices to compensate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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They recruit a bass player named Bill Perks, who compensates for his lack of blues knowledge by bringing along an enormous amplifier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Spotify’s history in the music industry is complex, and it has previously faced some criticism over how it compensates artists whose songs stream on its platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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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Other topics we delve into include Apple’s new operating system and how to get compensated for an airline-seat downgrade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Charles, who subsequently led a campaign to ensure the victims' families and dependants were fairly compensated, said his "wonderful" wife would be proud of what he fought for.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
Investors buying a 20- or 30-year Treasury bond want to be compensated for locking up their money as inflation concerns, fiscal deficits and an ever-increasing national debt loom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
A consoling warmth compensated for the milky smell, and the gritty, salty-sweet taste.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
Even in places where the direct cost-benefit analysis between taxes and government services may have seemed poor, there were other compensating qualities that state and local policy weren’t caustic enough to destroy.
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
As soon as this was accomplished, she would satisfy herself that the twins were properly taken care of, and perhaps allow them some sort of compensating treat.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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