Sentence examples for compensatory thing from inspiring English sources

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"I'd bounce between anorexia and bulimia," says Morissette. "Throwing up or excessive working out, whatever was the compensatory thing.

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Probably I should have taken the big plunge and done it a little bit sooner because I'm not noticing the soreness and the pain in my back and other compensatory things that have been jumping in every time I manage to get to a good level of fitness and racing the last couple of years".

Luckily, we've received a compensatory gift: "Stranger Things," the new sci-fi series on Netflix (which my colleague Emily Nussbaum has reviewed, enthusiastically, in this week's magazine).

"The immune system is very compensatory, and often when one thing is suppressed, another thing may be increased," she says.

They are seeking a protective order and compensatory and punitive damages, among other things.

On behalf of several of the 48 million of us defined as disaffected, compensatory shoppers, I'd like to say one thing.

Mayor Peter Panarites said the investigation revealed excessive overtime, abuses of compensatory time and destruction of personnel documents, among other things.

You watch enough of this sort of thing and, really, you soon start having mad compensatory dreams about the grotesque, lipstick-daubed, cackling fatties in Fellini's more tedious late movies.

For another, I thought she might help; given her extensive experience with losing things, I figured she must have developed a compensatory capacity for finding them.

He trudged down the road, trying to forget his lust for the doughy expanse of the farmer's wife's lunar bottom, his squatting in the briars like a stray dog waiting to steal a scrap and his rising hatred of farmers and all things agricultural, until he stepped unexpectedly into a compensatory truth: he could see in the dark.

One psychologist earnestly wrote that in these compensatory preschools, the teachers' role was to do the "kind of things a 'good' mother does" with her infant.

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