recompense
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And without legal recompense, the only check to this power appears to be other armed men.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2026
Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
"In each case substantial sums of money were lost to them with no prospect of recompense," he said.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023
The slipping away of time, a phrase, a gesture, the way a child glides across a lawn or a man with fewer years ahead than behind finds recompense.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
“The Mountain’s dead, as is my father,” Jaime told him, “and some might say your head was recompense enough. You did declare for Stark, and kept faith with him until Lord Walder killed him.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing recompense
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Oedipus the King
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