recompense

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

It was Ghana that tabled the UN resolution, and in June, a summit on reparations was held in its capital, Accra, with delegates from around 80 countries, who concluded that recompense was long overdue.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

Here Mr. Stoppard managed to impart a few slivers of his deep knowledge of literary history while exploring the universal theme of a love that cannot find expression or recompense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

For both Joe and Roger, making it into the shell barges was sweet recompense for days that had been, ever since school began, brutally long and demanding.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

The artist was rewarded for his labour with smiles, money, compliments, a most affectionate squeeze of the hand, and a pressing invitation to dinner; in a word, he was overwhelmed with recompenses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

These little incidental recompenses of the most perfect domestic harmony were realized in everything we undertook.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

Although recompenses and punishments may be only secondary means by which men may be led to do good and avoid evil, this should not be their essential office nor their real idea.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

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

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

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

It is right that the players should be financially well recompensed for what they do.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 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

His good nature and justice did farther appear in his manner of recompensing his domestics, and by his liberality to the poor.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Samuel Felton

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

He would declare his mercy better in preventing misery, and he would declare his justice better in preventing guilt, in advancing virtue, in recompensing it.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard