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- adverb In a
compensatory way; so as tocompensate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am, however, against the idea of compensatorily assigning white americans the status of property or chattel for four hundred years.
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Tropylium: Additionally, if you explain *CVCa-sa *CVCᵊ-ssᵊ rather than **CVCCᵊ-ssᵊ by the root vowel being stressed and thus long, how do you reconcile this with moments later compensatorily lengthening the root vowel anyway?
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Additionally, if you explain *CVCa-sa *CVCᵊ-ssᵊ rather than **CVCCᵊ-ssᵊ by the root vowel being stressed and thus long, how do you reconcile this with moments later compensatorily lengthening the root vowel anyway?
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Salt smuggling, however, had struck me by its very prosaic nature as a vocation requiring a compensatorily flamboyant personality, but such was not the case here.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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Salt smuggling, however, had struck me by its very prosaic nature as a vocation requiring a compensatorily flamboyant personality, but such was not the case here.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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I had plenty of time to consider the actor's appeal during the unspooling of the otherwise nondescript Contraband, and here's what I came up with: Mark Wahlberg is attractive because he seems genuinely, effortlessly masculine rather than anxiously, compensatorily macho.
Slate Articles Dana Stevens 2012
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So, probably compensatorily, I'm thinking tonight too about an article I've wanted to write about for a long time, something I am essentially stupid about … that is, golf.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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So, probably compensatorily, I'm thinking tonight too about an article I've wanted to write about for a long time, something I am essentially stupid about … that is, golf.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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So, probably compensatorily, I'm thinking tonight too about an article I've wanted to write about for a long time, something I am essentially stupid about … that is, golf.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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So, probably compensatorily, I'm thinking tonight too about an article I've wanted to write about for a long time, something I am essentially stupid about … that is, golf.
The Moderate Voice 2009
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