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made up (for)

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Definition of made up (for)

past tense of make up (for)

as in offset

to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective the lavish present almost made up for her forgetting his birthday

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This cycle of price increases serves not only to offset immediate fuel price spikes, but also to make up for unadjusted pricing power lost in recent years due to flight overcapacity, fare suppression, and persistent inflation.

— , CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
But private developers and homeowners will want higher rents to offset their investments, especially because construction and labor costs have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
The neighborhood group argued that the driveway should be moved or otherwise corrected before approval.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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Nearly four hours were spent neutralized behind the safety car, with 16 cautions that prevented this year’s race from ever really developing a rhythm.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
During last month's Águila Alta operation in the Tijuana-San Diego area, the defense ministry said Mexican forces neutralized five drones, detained one person and seized a gun, magazines and ammunition.

— Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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