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Recent Examples of compensation The Connecticut state legislature paved the way for UConn to opt into the settlement in February, passing a bill that included language allowing student athletes to earn direct compensation from the institution through revenue sharing. Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025 Israel’s tax authority says more than 40,000 compensation claims have been filed. Nabih Bulos foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025 Making matters worse, the gap between productivity and a typical worker's compensation has been widening for nearly a half century, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with productivity growing nearly three times as much as hourly pay. Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 5 July 2025 But Texas Tech, which has proved to be one of the biggest spenders in name, image and likeness compensation in the last year, remained firmly in the recruitment — even if not publicly — since Ojo’s official visit to Lubbock in April. The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 5 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for compensation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compensation
Noun
  • The legislation would create a commission to study reparations and develop proposals.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today, 20 June 2025
  • Several states and cities have established reparations commissions to study and recommend ways to address the legacy of slavery and its continuing impact on Black communities.
    Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The judge, who has been suspended with pay by the state Supreme Court, was excused from attending the hearing.
    John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 9 July 2025
  • Washington — Secret Service suspended six personnel without pay as the agency faced intense scrutiny after the assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly a year ago.
    Laura Geller, CBS News, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • In the four years since NIL payments began in 2021, collectives affiliated with specific schools have made hundreds of millions in deals with athletes just like those the CSC described in its examples.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • More detail is also expected on payments made during production and whether any money fell into the hands of Hamas.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • On the other hand, the club also intends to bring salaries and fees down to a more sustainable level.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.
    Clifford Ando, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025

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“Compensation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compensation. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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