compend

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • Terms & Conditions functions as a compendium of Black thought and culture for former Tumblr kids.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
  • According to Native Languages of the Americas, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere, some Native American Tribes consider buzzards to be dirty, unsafe and associated with death, others see their appearance as a warning of danger ahead.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The court later ruled that Congress’ efforts to impose similar limits with respect to noncitizens being detained at Guantanamo Bay under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were an unconstitutional abridgment of habeas corpus rights.
    Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Nationalism has been a liberating force, but it has also been exploited to justify the abridgment of rights.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • According to summary provided by the House speaker’s office, the bill includes financial support for special education, bilingual education and pre-kindergarten and a $395 increase in the base amount schools get per student, known as the basic allotment.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • On the order summary page, paste your promo code into the Discount Code or Gift Card box, and click Apply to see your savings.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One set of messages fully spelled out our inquiry; the other set was filled with abbreviations.
    David Fang, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Local authorities banned residents from collecting water from the river and reinforced chlorination in the water distribution system, said MSF, the abbreviation for the French name of the group, Medecins Sans Frontieres.
    Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • What had formed on the narrow little patch of dirt in Albuquerque was a recapitulation of the most basic human instincts at the heart of ordinary everyday life; when faced with uncertainty and danger, people naturally cling together and form communities which become more complex and orderly.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In March, grid operators in California shut down 80 gigawatt-hours of the state’s renewable power because the grid couldn’t handle the afternoon solar surge; without more capacity to store power, even larger curtailments will occur.
    David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
  • According to the National Grid ESO, curtailment of wind power alone cost British consumers over £800 million in 2023, as renewable generators were paid to shut down during periods of oversupply, with the tab being picked up by households.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The United States lags behind other high-income countries in average life expectancy, with heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, and cancer shortening millions of lives per year.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Genetic samples collected via cheek swabs and analyzed using qPCR revealed that telomeres in hibernating lemurs not only avoided shortening but actually grew longer.
    Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Is someone wearing steel-toed boots, a colored armband, and a hearing device, and also showing the outline of handcuffs in their pocket?
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Highlight details are preserved in bright, snowy nature shots, letting wisps of clouds and the outlines of distant hills be easily seen against the white skies and laying snow.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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