requited

past tense of requite
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as in compensated
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury the company requited the employee who had fallen on the ice while leaving work by promptly paying all his medical bills, hoping that would stave off a lawsuit

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as in avenged
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for the future writer would later requite the abuse he suffered at the hands of his classmates by creating scathing portraits of them in his novels

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Recent Examples of requited But after years of wooing Silicon Valley, the Defense Department’s interest became requited, with companies like Amazon seeing opportunities to replace the government’s hodge-podge data centers with cloud computing, for which the Pentagon was offering a $10 billion contract prize in 2019. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • She was not compensated nor given an additional discount for later posting about her experience on social media.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The trial, which began this week at the historic Placer County courthouse in Auburn, is being held to determine the value of Flores’ loss and whether she should also be compensated for her husband’s pain.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • The victory was also payback for West Boca (3-0), which avenged last season’s 26-20 overtime loss to Newman.
    — Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The only other times there was a Week 1 Super Bowl rematch came in 2016 when defending champion Denver beat Carolina 21-20 and in the first year of the merger when Minnesota avenged a loss to Kansas City with a 27-10 victory in 1970.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
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  • But the remaining $10 billion in bonds would be repaid through the state general fund, costing at least $500 million annually for 25 years.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • And that's a real risk with a home equity loan, as the funds will be distributed in a lump sum upfront – and expected to be repaid immediately.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • The Sacramento Bee first reported in May that the Steyer campaign paid influencers as little as $10 to boost Steyer’s progressive candidacy — often without disclosing they’d been reimbursed.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Students who have already purchased the Den Pass for the 2026-2027 academic year will be reimbursed.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Jets tried to trade him during the summer, but were never able to get the deal that satisfied Kevin Cheveldayoff.
    — Max Bultman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Instead of recognizing that a 1-paragraph block is not a 10-paragraph block, the generation engine assumed that formatting the technical specifications neatly satisfied the underlying intent.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Requited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/requited. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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