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recompense

[rek-uhm-pens] / ˈrɛk əmˌpɛns /




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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

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

Perhaps he sees something meaningful, how this might be a test and a recompense.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

If you are willing to devote your heart and soul to this one task, another recompense is in store for you—a multitude of sublime recompenses.

From Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Victor Mapes

The soil, in many places resembling the black earth or tscherno-semof Russia, recompenses with abundant harvests even the slightest labour of cultivation.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie

That the obligations and the recompenses of the sexes are reciprocal, is true.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

"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

It is right that the players should be financially well recompensed for what they do.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 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

Two hours, spent in this way, go far towards recompensing one for any labor and sacrifice.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

He would declare his mercy better in preventing misery, and he would declare his justice better in preventing guilt, in advancing virtue, in recompensing it.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard

"I thought it was better to have able counsel; and as I know I have the means of recompensing him, the opportunity was lucky."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever


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