The phrase "almost compensate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where something nearly offsets or balances out another factor, but does not fully do so.
Example: "The additional funding will almost compensate for the losses we incurred last quarter."
Alternatives: "nearly offset" or "partially balance".
Resonant and dynamic, Mr. Greyson's bravado and ambition almost compensate for his liabilities; something has to.
This means the initial AA calculation - that a driver doing 10,000 miles could save around £1,500 a year, so almost compensate for the higher capital cost in three years - no longer holds true.
Hensher's attention is on the foreground, revealing ordinary life through impressive, often funny set pieces and assiduously observed dramatic episodes, which almost compensate for the lack of an organized plot.
A good death reel can almost compensate for five hours of French actors trying to make adorable acceptance speeches.
There are places in its courtyard where the energy of the architecture almost compensates for the absence of screaming children.
A slice of grilled bread topped with chopped tomatoes and a lot of pungent roasted garlic slices almost compensated, though.
The witty and colorful 3-D animation almost compensates for the tiresome, noisy, tonally mixed-up story.
Only the empanadas (one chicken-filled, one with beef) were unexceptional, though the tangy dip almost compensated for the thick dough.
"When you have a concept like that, you kind of have to go out of your way to court them, with the quality and the tone of the show almost compensating for the idea," said Stu Smiley, the veteran producer and development executive whose credits include "The Kids in the Hall," "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "Flight of the Conchords".
Bishop's reunion with Methfessel and other boons of 1976 — the Neustadt Prize, her European trip, the upcoming publication of "Geography III," and a "very smart" Advanced Verse Writing class in the fall, the last she was scheduled to teach — almost compensated for the imminent termination of her Harvard contract at the end of the spring 1977 semester.
There is "the house John Irving used to live in, and, across the street, the shambling old place that had been Plimpton's for many years, then the one Kurt Vonnegut still lived in … Russell loved being in the proximity of all this literary talent, which he felt almost compensated for the invasion he called the hedge funders behind the hedge rows".
