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make up (for)

verb

Definition of make up (for)

as in to 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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As manufacturers worldwide search for ways to offset labor shortages and improve production efficiency, Shanghai Electric is positioning embodied AI as a practical tool for factory automation rather than a standalone robotics showcase.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
The video and Internet losses were offset by Charter adding 406,000 mobile wireline subscribers, down from adding 500,000 total mobile wireline subscribers in the year-ago period.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026

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High jump is a technical event — while physiology matters, the winner tends to be decided by who can best correct their errors as the bar goes up.

— Liam Tharme, New York Times, 25 July 2026
The difficult part was measuring the distortions accurately enough such that the correcting heat could be applied with exact precision.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of correct

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Now my own messy, inconvenient story had been absorbed and neutralized.

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Conceding only one goal in seven matches, their whole-team pressing and tight-marking strategy has suffocated opponents, notably neutralizing Kylian Mbappe in their 2-0 semi-final win over France.

— Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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