Thesaurus results for SATISFACTIONS

satisfactions

noun

plural of satisfaction

as in compensations

payment to another for a loss or injury he's demanding satisfaction from his neighbor for running over his prize tulips

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Recent Examples of satisfactions Homer approves equally of the man’s satisfactions and the woman’s chastity. — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026 Typically, the more problems a brand has, the lower its customer satisfactions rank — but not Rivian. — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 9 June 2026 Working for his hometown has its satisfactions After living all over the world for 25 years in the foreign service, Marc Shaw, 51, was ready to come home to Kansas City, Missouri. — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026 Niazi doesn’t discuss the frustrations or satisfactions of this process. — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026 Accordingly, its satisfactions come from seeing those demands met. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Jan. 2026 Few satisfactions are more uniquely human than the slow extraction of new understanding, illuminated through the steady attention of your mind’s eye. — Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025

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This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.

— Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of compensations

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These cases aren’t about monetary damages, but instead injunctive relief—specifically, a court order that blocks the NCAA from disallowing an athlete whom the NCAA classifies as ineligible.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2026
Take a wrongful termination case where the plaintiff asks for past and future wages loss, emotional dress, and damages for PTSD that allegedly occurred from a particularly stressful workplace.

— Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of damages

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Some in Nigeria view Yahoo Boys as folk heroes, stealing money from white foreigners as a means of reparations for slavery and colonialism.

— Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2026
Last month, Mottley led a subcommittee of Caribbean leaders that launched a new slavery reparations manifesto during a reparations conference in Ghana.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

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