reciprocation

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Recent Examples of reciprocation Therefore, reciprocation is a must. Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 19 Aug. 2025 My efforts are met with little or no reciprocation. Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025 Furthermore, Newsweek has reported on how some friendships can turn toxic when one person consistently expects the other to accommodate their needs without reciprocation. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 Leos demand respect and honor for their kindness to their friends and brood, so no deed is done without reciprocation. Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for reciprocation
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Noun
  • Some 3,000 businesses have filed lawsuits seeking recompense, Automotive News reported, many of them car manufacturers.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Most have an attendance policy and an absence means a paper must be written as recompense.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Rather than force a substitution that compromised quality—or lean more heavily on synthetics—the company began to reconsider its approach.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Recent economic research from Goldman Sachs found the substitution of AI for human labor has reduced monthly payroll growth by roughly 25,000, while AI’s augmentation of labor—the use of AI to enhance worker output—has actually added about 9,000 to monthly payroll growth.
    Jake Angelo, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • With Kayla McBride turning 34 in June, Fudd would act as her future replacement long term and an instant deep-threat contributor right away.
    Matthew Coller, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Klassen, 24, was a last-minute rotation replacement when Ryan Johnson got sick.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The ceasefire brokered by Pakistan still faces hurdles in the talks beginning Saturday, as Israel and Hezbollah militants have traded fire along the border of southern Lebanon and Iran has set conditions before negotiations can begin.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Israel and Lebanon will have direct negotiations Meanwhile, Israel pressed ahead with strikes in Lebanon after saying there is no ceasefire there.
    Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Officials found that, between June and October 2025, 29 transactions totaling $15,447 had been made against the account, the warrant affidavit said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The bedroom exchange never went through, but both Amy and Gretchen have honored our 1970 agreement.
    David Sedaris, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Such clean behavior strongly points to an origin in isolated binary systems, where two stars are born together, evolve side by side, exchange mass, and eventually collapse into black holes that merge without interference from their surroundings.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026

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“Reciprocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reciprocation. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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