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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

Perhaps I may be pardoned my naivete; I was but eight, and had given little thought to service and recompense.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

But the recompenses of friendship were still left to her, and it was surely doing no wrong to accept them.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

He has had the privilege of rearing and training five small crowns and recompenses, and he feels that he could face the future if further privilege, of this sort, were denied him.

From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird

That the obligations and the recompenses of the sexes are reciprocal, is true.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

"Currently there isn't any effective way for creators to be recompensed when their work is downloaded and stored by audiences," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

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

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

If people knew a radio station, a platform or a device was using a fair system, and that artists were being recompensed for their work directly, they’d go for it over another that didn’t.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015

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

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

I accuse you, therefore, of entering France to play the spy on us, recompensing us for our hospitality with the most abominable treason.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

Now that vengeance was satisfied, Havelok and his wife thought of recompensing the loyal helpers who had believed in them and supported them through the long years of adversity.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

Who keeps his reputation still, For recompensing good with ill With more than pandemonium's skill?

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various


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