compensated

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One way in which consumers could be compensated is by businesses disbursing any funds recouped from Customs and Border Protection to those affected, though few have announced plans to do so.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Gratefully, I live in a dual-income household where my spouse is gainfully employed and compensated well.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Bisignano reiterated that the IRS wouldn’t have the “type of revenue we have coming in” if not collecting from “highly compensated people and bad actors.”

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Virginia Woolf complained that Dickens compensated for weak plotting by “throwing another handful of people on the fire,” but the plot of Dickens’s 1865 novel, “Our Mutual Friend,” turns on death by water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

A consoling warmth compensated for the milky smell, and the gritty, salty-sweet taste.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago