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as in to reimburse
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury
you'll have to compensate the neighbors for cutting down their tree
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as in to offset
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
a mafioso thinking that he can compensate for the evil he's done by giving to charity
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Recent Examples of compensate
Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
Dean’s attorneys asked the jury to award $24 million to compensate her for her past and future mental health harms, and around $120 million in punitive damages to punish Uber for its lax safety standards.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
But other parts of the leg need to compensate.
—Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
At Vermillio, Grace oversaw content owners and talent being able to track, authenticate, and be compensated for the use of their work in AI models.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
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And then the question is how we get compensated when the studios license it to the AI companies.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
Dean’s attorneys asked the jury to award $24 million to compensate her for her past and future mental health harms, and around $120 million in punitive damages to punish Uber for its lax safety standards.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
But other parts of the leg need to compensate.
—Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
At Vermillio, Grace oversaw content owners and talent being able to track, authenticate, and be compensated for the use of their work in AI models.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Compensate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compensate. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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