compensate
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After a website offering Chase Sapphire cardholders early access to World Cup tickets crashed for certain users, the bank was offering to compensate customers with 5,000 courtesy points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Our staffer @vanessafranko does pen and ink drawings to compensate when artists don’t let us take their photo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
"I had hoped SOS would apologise and offer support, to compensate me for the harm they caused by separating me from my family," Omama Ghbeis said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The stakes are also high for President Xi Jinping, however, with China heavily reliant on exports to compensate for its weak domestic economy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
As if to compensate for all this watching, Nathan habitually overlooked me.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
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
UBS reported outflows last quarter and said it was anticipating further disruption after changes to how it compensates its front-line financial advisers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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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The Franco-German deal scraps the latter requirement stating that residual emissions should not have to be compensated by manufacturers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
“You’re not getting compensated in the classic sense for going out on the risk spectrum.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 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
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
If Shin worked hard, the farmer told him, he would be generously compensated.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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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
“Creators make their living generating content. The campaign believes in compensating people for their time and work product and has paid creators to generate content,” Liao said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Emmer wheat, however, has compensating virtues: it can be gathered more efficiently than barley, and it is unusual among cereals in that its seeds do not adhere to husks.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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