recompense
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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
"In each case substantial sums of money were lost to them with no prospect of recompense," he said.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023
It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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Vocabulary lists containing recompense
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Oedipus the King
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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