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"We also found that they broadened the bandwidth on these calls. These adaptations are very interesting because we'd usually see them when bats are compensating for external noise but this is an internal processing deficit."

From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024

For now, though, their streaking bats are compensating for their problematic pitching, saving the day again in the Dodgers’ 13-7 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

“We are compensating some cost increase, not all,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2023

Food industries which rely on potatoes are compensating for these expected losses by contracting a greater number of growers and over-planting.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

Yet in actual practice, what are these working hypotheses that work because they are compensating conceptions or doors in the panelling?

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.