recompense

Example Sentences

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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

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

“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

"In each case substantial sums of money were lost to them with no prospect of recompense," he said.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton