recompense

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

Burnham was reported to have told a hustings event during the campaign he would "stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

“The Mountain’s dead, as is my father,” Jaime told him, “and some might say your head was recompense enough. You did declare for Stark, and kept faith with him until Lord Walder killed him.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.—Johnson.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

And the one conquering power is patient gentleness, which recompenses all evil with good, and is the sole means of transforming and thus overcoming it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Yes, young lady," said Miss Daly, turning towards Helen, "such are the recompenses of the most endearing affection, such the penalties of loving.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

"And it came cheap. Unlike hotels where the proprietors had to be recompensed for their time, the Pavilion was a civic building without any clear purpose."

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2014

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

Grants of land were the only means of recompensing their military services.

From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

His good nature and justice did farther appear in his manner of recompensing his domestics, and by his liberality to the poor.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Samuel Felton

Thus they passed the iorney in pleasaunt talk, recompensing the 2 Louers with al honest and vertuous intertainment for their griefs and troubles past.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter