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

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

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

If one among them distinguishes himself by his zeal or his strict attention to his duties, my father recompenses him on his name day, either in money or in stuffs taken from his own wardrobe.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.—Montesquieu.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

The Romans had patricians, knights, citizens, and slaves:—for each class different dresses and different manners—honorary recompenses for every species of merit—mural crowns—civic crowns—ovations—triumphs—titles.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

"Currently there isn't any effective way for creators to be recompensed when their work is downloaded and stored by audiences," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

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

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

Her delicacy hindered her from recompensing me in words for what I had uttered in her presence; but she used her ingenuity to find a way to make me understand that she approved of me.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s

In order to make a stronger impression, he then particularizes the general threatening, showing how God's recompensing justice manifests itself in the fate of the individual apostate kings.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Who keeps his reputation still, For recompensing good with ill With more than pandemonium's skill?

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various