Example Sentences

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During dual strikes in 2023, writers and actors complained bitterly about how Netflix was compensating them for their work on streaming shows.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Second, he was compensating for his personal, characterological feeling of powerlessness – asserting unlimited future power to convince his doubting inner self to “fake it ‘til he makes it.”

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

Her body was compensating for the shock, he suspected, but what would happen when that wore off?

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2017

Other firms to have fallen foul of pay rules include Tesco, which said in March said it was compensating 140,000 current and former staff after a payroll error.

From BBC • May 9, 2017

She was compensating her conscience for the concession she had made in intimating that he might go.

From Doctor Claudius, A True Story by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)