compensate
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Because the inner ear’s balance organs are wired to the eye muscles, when displaced crystals send false signals that the head is spinning, the eyes reflexively move to compensate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
"We cracked a way to compensate for losses continuously."
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
The administrators have won a key non-wage concession: a recognition of a 40-hour work week, with flex time off to compensate for weeks of more than 40 hours.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Very expensive data centers cannot adequately compensate for higher costs and reduced sales for, say, the restaurant industry.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
One’s magnetic and directional subsenses are all wrong on other planets; when the intellect won’t or can’t compensate for that wrongness, the result is a profound bewilderment, a feeling that everything, literally, has come loose.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing compensate
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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The Crucible
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