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recompense

[rek-uhm-pens] / ˈrɛk əmˌpɛns /




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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

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

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

Thou shalt serve humanity for the full span of thy days, and thy family shall have immunity as recompense for as long as you live.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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 vulgar, insatiable curiosity of the general world breeds such traitors as these makers of post-mortem recollections; breeds them, nourishes them, recompenses them.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

"Antonio—I have long known that in his recompenses Alphonso is immoderate; 'tis thine To prove to-day what all who serve the prince Have learn'd, or will."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

They were beloved, honoured, respected and the recompenses the Emperor might have bestowed upon them, instead of tending to alienate France, would have fulfilled her wishes.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

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

From Slate Jul. 2, 2018

"And it came cheap. Unlike hotels where the proprietors had to be recompensed for their time, the Pavilion was a civic building without any clear purpose."

From BBC Jun. 6, 2014

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

Jenkins said he believes the creditors were never fully recompensed, although St John Ambulance says its debt was recouped via advertising at the ground.

From The Guardian Apr. 8, 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

But such privileges should not be continued longer than is necessary for the purpose of reasonably recompensing the adventurers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

Outside the Church there was little learning or desire for knowledge, nor did any other means for recompensing scholars exist than by the bestowal of ecclesiastical benefices.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt

Indeed, if it hadn't been for the recompensing features, Mary's enthusiasm would probably have become chilled by experience, and dreams have come to nothing.

From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston




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