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recompense

[rek-uhm-pens] / ˈrɛk əmˌpɛns /




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Because China values its access to America’s capital markets, now is the time to seek recompense for American bondholders.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

And without legal recompense, the only check to this power appears to be other armed men.

From Slate Jan. 29, 2026

Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

"That settlement for Zach allowed him the opportunity to have some kind of recompense but more importantly, to be able to make some memories," said Anna-Louise.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2025

It was wrong what happened and one would like to recompense them somehow.'

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

These works are among the great recompenses that experience offers us.

From The New Yorker Sep. 19, 2014

“The Case for Reparations” is deeply focused on economic injuries and recompenses.

From Washington Post

BAMBABEF: Take care; in those towns you will find philosophers who will deny you both your pains and your recompenses.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.—Johnson.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

And the one conquering power is patient gentleness, which recompenses all evil with good, and is the sole means of transforming and thus overcoming it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2018

If people knew a radio station, a platform or a device was using a fair system, and that artists were being recompensed for their work directly, they’d go for it over another that didn’t.”

From The Guardian Sep. 6, 2015

One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.

From New York Times May 5, 2013

The ECJ says long-delayed passengers should be recompensed as generously as those whose flights were cancelled.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2010

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Still, Treyzon said that does not deter his suit from examining the platform’s value in recompensing class-action members.

From Washington Post Apr. 12, 2019

The IRS seized Nelson’s belongings in 1991 to start recompensing the approximate $32m he owed in taxes at the time.

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2015

Constantine; which splendid work ... of the shining heaven an inhabitant and citizen him show O Immaculate One; friendliness recompensing ... the temple ... the gift.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

"I thought it was better to have able counsel; and as I know I have the means of recompensing him, the opportunity was lucky."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

And has this same Sir Stafford never taken any steps towards recompensing you?

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever




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