uncompensated

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Recent Examples of uncompensated Legal experts say that uncompensated seizures are likely to be rare — the government has long purchased land from white farmers. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 16 May 2025 The gems those dwarfs spend their apparently uncompensated days mining appear to be going directly to the queen’s personal collection. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025 Corporate profits—almost $4 trillion annually in the U.S. prior to taxes—are disproportionately distributed to shareholders, while the original contributors of the raw material (i.e., data) remain uncompensated. James Felton Keith, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 This leads to higher rates of uncompensated care, putting vulnerable health care facilities — think rural hospitals — at risk. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for uncompensated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncompensated
Adjective
  • Vermont Expanded parental leave Starting next month, the state will expand its unpaid parental leave.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2025
  • In 2024, the retailer introduced handheld scanners at select locations, which enabled employees to ensure that shoppers were not using old or fake receipts to walk out of stores with unpaid items.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2018 at the Academy's Governors Awards Gala.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • In a Broward case, a former Blanche Ely High School principal was accused of flashing an honorary Broward sheriff’s badge to avoid a parking ticket.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • In recent days, the U.S. began pulling some diplomats from Iraq’s capital and offering voluntary evacuations for the families of U.S. troops in the wider Middle East.
    Christopher Bodeen, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • While admission to the Como Park Zoo & Conservatory is free, voluntary donations of $4 for adults and $2 for children are welcome.
    Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • The entire non-defense discretionary budget amounts to about nine hundred billion dollars—one-seventh of the total.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • One protection now in place is that county supervisors need approval from the wider board before issuing contracts using their discretionary funding.
    Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 15 June 2025

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“Uncompensated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncompensated. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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