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as in damages
payment to another for a loss or injury the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire
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as in payments
something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house
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as in retaliations
the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury "an eye for an eye" is a form of requital that is still legal in some countries
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Taking time before a storm arrives to unplug the right appliances and household items can be the difference between weathering the storm safely and thousands of dollars in damages.—
Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
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On Tuesday a civil jury concluded that Lodes resigned involuntarily due to his reporting of a hostile workplace and was awarded the multimillion-dollar payment as compensation for his emotional damages.— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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The goal, according to agency officials, is to collect payments faster and reduce the number of accounts sent to collections.— Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Apple expanded its business and offered new services, becoming intertwined with fitness, payments and entertainment.— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
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Over the past year, countries rushed to secure piecemeal deals; some allowed panic to overtake them; very few coordinated their actions or retaliations.— Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
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Neither country can afford to return to the prior tariff rates during the heat of tit-for-tat retaliations, which freaked out Big Tech earlier this year.— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
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Mayor Johnson launched a Chicago reparations task force in 2024.— Aida Mogos, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
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Tehran’s demands included the release of frozen assets, guarantees around its nuclear program, the right to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, an end to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah and war reparations.— Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
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Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
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The final version of the bill walks back many of the more drastic changes that originally appeared in HB 2, including lowering co-pays, easing up on redetermination and allowing for hardship waivers.— Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Apr. 2026
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In everyday life, prolonged sitting, poor posture and repetitive movements can all create weak links in your muscular system that trigger compensations.— Dana Santas, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
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Mobility work can help lengthen tight muscles and reduce the chances of these compensations happening in the first place.— Jenny McCoy, SELF, 1 Apr. 2026
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However, wages can vary based on industry.— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
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The union had been seeking higher wages, better pensions, benefits protections and lower health care costs.— Doug Williams, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
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What starts as a petty territorial conflict mutates into a spiralling cycle of retributions, escalating from passive-aggressive jabs to acts of destruction and ruin.— Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
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Surveys are important, too, so workers feel safe to speak up without any retributions.— Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Requitals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/requitals. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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