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without recompense



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

From New York Times Nov. 20, 2024

Unwilling to share her traumas without recompense, Cash initiates a barter: a tale for a tale.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2023

This sad problem stretches well beyond Massachusetts: Crime lab scandals have plagued at least 20 states and the FBI, and tens of thousands of lives have been ruined because of them without recompense or accountability.

From Slate Oct. 29, 2015

Nine years later, without recompense, she gave her patent to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would swallow what he did not like, nay what he knew would injure him, rather than go home with an idea that his skill had been exerted without recompense.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman




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