make up for (something)

idiom

: to do or have something as a way of correcting or improving (something else)

He wanted to make up for neglecting his children by spending more time with them.

She tried to make up for lost time by working extra hard.

What the movie lacks in plot it makes up for in special effects.

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To make up for that gap, Austin is ordering the deployment of other Navy destroyers to the region. —

Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024 During his speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama insinuated that Trump focused so much on crowd sizes to make up for being poorly endowed. —

Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024 Yes, the Yankees still had five more times at bat to make up for their disastrous fifth. —

Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 And remember, there's no way to connect a subwoofer to make up for those missing sub-bass tones. —

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