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recompense

[rek-uhm-pens] / ˈrɛk əmˌpɛns /




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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

This cycle of governmental theft, recompense and reinjury lives on, the federal judge said in her 2022 ruling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

“But the settlement in his favor,” Mr. Lincenberg added, “represents a measure of recompense for the wrongs done to him by the wrongful prosecution.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

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




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