COMPEND Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

compend

noun

Definition of compend

as in compendium

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Noun

But before streaming made separating singles wheat from album chaff almost free and very easy, greatest-hits compendiums were ubiquitous, a way for the industry to turn early investment into real profit.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026
Off Ramp is many things—a useful compendium of research on polarization and political violence, a candid memoir of Cox’s uneven attempts at peacemaking, a practical handbook for Americans who want to rediscover how to live with one another.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 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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In the interests of full disclosure, Hussain writes for The Athletic, but few would challenge that summary of his status.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Humans can run dense regulatory documents through AI to get concise, actionable summaries that may also suggests policy updates or control improvements based on industry best practices.

— Gaurav Kapoor, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of summary

Noun

There will be controversy, grift and venality, supporters will get lost and lose themselves in a fog of legalese, accounting and abbreviations — VAR, SCR, LOL, FFS — there will be ugliness and misgivings and a lot of meh.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
For spacing purposes, Steele has removed the following words – left, at, by, went, had, in, the, to, for, and, then and got – and has crafted his own abbreviations.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 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

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And the bullpen, with Trevor Megill, Abner Uribe, and the versatile Aaron Ashby shortening games.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026
And without that increase in spin, there is no shortening of periods between episodes, meaning less and less material being stripped would result in dimming.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of shortening

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The new style is part of the Gucci Primavera collection, and the Donna features a striking, pronounced outline and clean lines all around, lengthening the leg.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026
Leigh famously makes films in a very different manner than most, pulling together his cast and then workshopping them with an outline of where the scenario might head, but with no script.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

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