compensate
verb (used with object)
to recompense for something.
had compensated
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past perfectof compensate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Wrighster didn’t respond to questions about whether he had compensated anyone in connection with Bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
But the project drew criticism after it was revealed that Furst had compensated McFarland to license materials used in the film.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
In November, the company's CEO Roland Harings told Reuters that strong growth in copper demand from the renewables and electric vehicles sectors had compensated for a fall in demand from the construction sector.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022
Aiello had proposed that our ancestors had compensated for those expensive brains by evolving smaller guts and other organs.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2022
And now they were all gone, and he had compensated himself well.
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
