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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compensate.

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Examples

  • Plus the amount of detail you are able to see with your eyes is actually a very narrow portion of your field of vision -- that is, everything outside of what you look at directly is somewhat blurry, although your brain compensates for this to some degree, filling in the fuzz with informed guesses.

    Is The First-Person The Most-Person? SVGL 2009

  • Brain compensates for aging by becoming less 'specialized'

    Metabolism Screwup Day 2006

  • How Parkin overexpression compensates for PINK1 loss is not known, but there are several possible explanations.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Derek P. Narendra et al. 2010

  • The explanation that spending time with friends "compensates" for not having a spouse also won't fly (even apart from the fact that it is insulting).

    Bella DePaulo: Single Boomers: Marketing Myths and Mistakes 2008

  • In this, the attachment bond with God "compensates" for the lack of human attachment.

    Experimental Theology 2010

  • The program kind of compensates for the vacuous idiocy of such research-shy tossers like Scott Murray, who rather hilariously tried to have us believe that Hunt was a second-rate champion with some of the laziest, most taudry journalism

    The Guardian World News Martin Kelner 2010

  • Luckily life compensates with a syndrome which helps cope with such things Anne.

    Eyeball to eyeball (with tooth-sucking….) « Write Anything 2010

  • Your mind compensates for the loss kind of as an auto-level or volume control, but like a TV with the volume turned up and no signal coming through there is an increased level of noise.

    Developing An Ear for Spanish 2009

  • He compensates for this social paralysis with strained use of LOL. johnnyk says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose? 2010

  • A weak rupee--it is trading near an all-time low against the U.S. dollar--and higher crude oil prices raise the government's subsidy bill as it partly compensates retailers for selling fuels below market prices.

    India's Rating Unaffected Despite Fiscal Woes Sudeep Jain 2012

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