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recompense

[rek-uhm-pens] / ˈrɛk əmˌpɛns /




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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

Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

What is offered to another person without reservation can also be taken without recompense.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2024

However, the pair said the recompense was not enough.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2023

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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