compensate
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The results suggest that combining pollen from different plants and then processing it through nurse bees may allow honeybee colonies to compensate for the nutritional shortcomings of individual pollen sources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
To help compensate for taking on that extra risk over time, investors demand a higher premium, thus pushing yields higher.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
And, of course, as we age, our balance becomes compromised — we’re less able to compensate for vestibular system weaknesses as our vision declines and our sense of touch deteriorates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
For years, the government has helped compensate banks and payment firms for providing a service that has effectively been treated as public infrastructure.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
‘The religious sentiment will compensate us for all our losses.’
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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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
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
And he compensates for Mr. Sanders’s silence by having “hundreds of hours of conversation with dozens of individuals”—including Bernie’s loquacious older brother, Larry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
She compensates with mascara and turquoise eye shadow, so that her eyes look a bit like two peacock feathers.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Murrill’s opposition doesn’t necessarily mean that Brooks and other exonerees won’t eventually be compensated.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Doctors shouldn’t be compensated based on their referrals, for instance, CMS says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In negotiations it has wanted to ensure that the tens of thousands of civil servants that its government employed in Gaza prior to the war should be compensated or given new jobs.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“And if inflation is going to be higher for longer, then you need to be compensated for that.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
She compensated for this handicap by developing a memory on which was indelibly stamped everything she had ever heard or seen or experienced.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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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
“Creators make their living generating content. The campaign believes in compensating people for their time and work product and has paid creators to generate content,” Liao said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
The findings suggest the brain may be compensating in women in ways that help maintain cognitive performance earlier in the disease.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
And I felt that it was the fear of their enemies that made Communists—unconsciously compensating for their fear—fight one another so doggedly and persistently.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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