compend

noun

Definition of compendnext
as in compendium

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  1. compendium
  2. abridgment
  3. summary
  4. abbreviation
  5. recapitulation
  6. curtailment
  7. shortening
  8. outline
Noun
  • The Whole Earth Catalog, founded by writer and editor Stewart Brand, promoted ecological knowledge and self-sufficiency, but was still a compendium of things to buy.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The Houston Chronicle food team has been chipping away at our 2026 Top 100 Restaurants list, the city’s singular compendium of the best places to eat.
    — Jody Schmal, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of compendium
Noun
  • All of which is beating around the bush on the way to say that the set was pretty unassailable for an abridgement of what is about to come on tour.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The court found that the current cap violated the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of freedom of speech.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of abridgment
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  • Charms on a bracelet sold through TikTok Shop, also advertised as sterling silver, contained about 33% cadmium, roughly 3,300 times the limit, according to trade publication JCK’s summary of the report.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Pew Research Center found that users clicked a traditional result on 8% of visits when an AI summary appeared, compared with 15% without one.
    — Mark van Berkel, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of summary
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  • But in the Pentagon’s email system, Kollitides’ name now carries an abbreviation signifying he has been designated an HQE, or highly qualified expert.
    — Aaron Davis, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The second is a partial abbreviation in the answer, which is TP-ED — as in, toilet-papered a house.
    — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of abbreviation
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  • The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed.
    — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In this sense, the salt flats and their salty lakes are at once a living record and an ongoing recapitulation of billions of years of planetary history.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Definition of recapitulation
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  • Such environmental waivers are not arbitrary decisions but legal mechanisms, ordered by local authorities, to prevent grid instability, for example when loss of wind generation would be exacerbated by curtailment of thermal plants.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • This can reduce the strain on the electric grid and help prevent the need for involuntary power curtailment or power brownouts, Holran notes.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
Definition of curtailment
Noun
  • What’s Happening Home cooks and professional chefs are increasingly reaching for beef tallow in place of butter, vegetable oil and shortening.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Beginning in the early 20th century, the chemical process of hydrogenation allowed producers to turn liquid vegetable oils into semisolid fats suitable for shortening and margarine.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • In 2006, Liu, after being approached by Re-Wrap, a women’s textile coöperative in India, helped design the famous tote, which has an outline of the Marylebone shop façade.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Both Meta and OpenAI outline privacy policies for their new AI agents, which operate on their own dedicated cloud computers.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of outline
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