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compensate

[kom-puhn-seyt] / ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt /




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If the market starts to worry about U.S. debt levels and pushes up the rate of interest on Treasury bonds to compensate, this in turn pushes up the rates of return demanded by everything else.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Instead of simply eating more pollen to compensate for missing nutrients, bees may reduce their intake when another nutrient becomes excessive.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 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

It began with a number of students, mainly boys, muttering that we should get tokens to compensate when Madame took something away.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

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

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

Likewise, insurance policies with broad coverage which compensates for any mishap are apt to be cheaper in the long run than insurance for a particular disease or a particular trip.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The attacks cost him about $20,000, and Wildberries hasn’t compensated him, he said in an interview, adding that it had granted a three-month deferment on loan payments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

“This agreement with Merlin ensures participating artists are credited and compensated, and that every creation drives listeners back to the original work,” Charlie Hellman, Spotify’s global head of music, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

“Uncertainties are piling up,” he noted, and the bond market expects to get compensated for it.

From MarketWatch Jul. 26, 2026

The question over whether Jingye should be compensated for the nationalisation based on the value of the company will be determined by an independent assessor, Business Secretary Peter Kyle told the BBC.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

I’ve compensated by remembering everything about Anatole in the days that followed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"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

Then there are ideas for compensating job losers such as wage insurance or “universal basic income.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

It is also compensating customs duties on fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers exported to the EU.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

However, supervisors said that the responsibility for compensating affected residents likely rests with GKN.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 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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