recompense

Example Sentences

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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

“But the settlement in his favor,” Mr. Lincenberg added, “represents a measure of recompense for the wrongs done to him by the wrongful prosecution.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 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