make it up
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Again, the author has to make it up as she goes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
“The banks are just going to have to make it up somewhere else, and the easiest place is rewards.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026
“Basically Patrick was like, he feels horrible for the trade. And wants to make it up to us,” Dickason said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
"We have a lot of plans in New York, so it would have been a little bit of a catastrophe if we weren't able to make it up," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
At Devon, where every stick of furniture didn’t assert that Finny was a part of it, I could make it up to him.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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