without recompense

Example Sentences

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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

Sir Henry Guest, the great surgeon who worked among the poor without recompense, loved Gainsborough's 'Lady Wilton.'

From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)