The phrase "compensate for something" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when you want to say that someone is making up for, or balancing out, a negative or lacking aspect or situation. Example: The company offered a higher salary to compensate for the longer working hours.
An ISA spokesman said: "The company cannot compensate for something that it has not caused".
You don't want to spend your first months trying to compensate for something you regret doing or saying – or not doing or saying, for that matter.
This only works because Bach doesn't tend to end parts early and have rests at the end, but it wouldn't be too hard to compensate for something like that – see the docs for measure method on Score objects.
Yet the bow tie comes to seem a little sad, a little silly; Woodcock's effort to dress himself so sharply begin to resemble the efforts of an insecure man desperate to compensate for something.
Was the company trying to compensate for something?
In fact, it can actually make you seem insecure — as if you need that fresh off the runway outfit to compensate for something.
Clever people are usually compensating for something, even if the wound that makes them draw the bow of art is no worse than an overlarge schnozz and sticking-out ears.
Kassell maintained a focussed expression while he played that failed to mask that he'd clearly disliked the keyboardist since day one, just because the keyboardist had shot down all of Kassell's objectively terrible suggestions at their first band practice and then made a very hilarious comment about how drummers are compensating for something with those drumsticks.
Since those first prosthetics were made at the Ottobock factory in 1919, the purpose of Paralympic technology has centred on compensating for something - usually a limb - that is missing.
