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compensate

[kom-puhn-sayt] / ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt /




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Campaigns try to team up with and sometimes compensate key content creators, as their endorsement can often hit harder than traditional political ads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Lee called the results a “bad combination,” adding that “the continued cash burn gets harder to justify without monetization or the core business growing to compensate for it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Although these approaches can help compensate for degradation or shield the surface, they also introduce additional material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

That means those buyers need to see strong-enough returns ahead to compensate for their higher cost of capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

In an attempt to compensate, O’Dell and Sherman leaned the launch rod more than usual against the wind.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

To counteract the problem, the team created a calibration method that compensates for these unwanted shifts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

The question is whether the additional business compensates for the lower price and any extra infrastructure required.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Madueke goes into central midfield and Bellingham compensates by defending out wide.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

Spotify’s history in the music industry is complex, and it has previously faced some criticism over how it compensates artists whose songs stream on its platform.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

However, musically, it is quite advanced in that as you gradually silence the letter of the word B-I-N-G-O, the brain compensates for the missing pitch and rhythm using the inner ear.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The researchers examined whether the spiders displayed "sleep rebound," meaning they compensated for interrupted sleep by increasing their subsequent sleep.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The remaining 10 percent would have had to be compensated for through various credits obtained among other things by using low-carbon steel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“You’re not getting compensated in the classic sense for going out on the risk spectrum.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Times asked the center’s attorney if Troupe was compensated for work outside of his board duties, but she did not respond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He was not compensated in any way for the five months he spent at the maximum-security prison.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

“I believe in compensating people fairly, even my friends.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

They are all issues World Athletics has sought to begin addressing with the biennial Ultimate Championship, while also compensating the athletes with record prize money.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But these new policies could easily overwhelm any compensating values of living in certain U.S. cities and states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

"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

They had been compensating for it by aiming our rockets at a small angle against whatever direction the wind was coming.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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