compensate
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Nonetheless, she sprang across the stage in sync with her dancers, often on tip-toe to compensate for the lost height of her high heels.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
In 2022, a Dutch court ordered the Netherlands to compensate the relatives of victims of a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in 2007 that was deemed unlawful.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
County’s defense lawyers balked at joining Hochman’s motion to freeze payouts and resumed transferring money to an escrow fund set up to compensate plaintiffs and their lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
At the top, with someone who wants to push the envelope instead of compensate and play catchup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Since Mary Anne never went anywhere, the punishment did not seem to compensate for the heinousness of the crime.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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His payment of $74,330 will go into the Lacey Act Reward Fund, which compensates tipsters who report wildlife crimes, federal authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
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
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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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
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
Cement makers, steel producers and other energy-intensive industries are only partly compensated by government rebates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The state's premier Chris Minns said on Saturday: "We want those guns handed in, compensated for and safely destroyed."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He was not compensated in any way for the five months he spent at the maximum-security prison.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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"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
However, supervisors said that the responsibility for compensating affected residents likely rests with GKN.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
A monetary framework that lets falling production costs show up as lower prices for consumers, rather than offsetting them with compensating stimulus, has intellectual support and is worth discussing.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 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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