compend

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compend
Noun
  • This week, Fortune published our 11th annual Change the World list, a compendium of 50 companies that are using the creative forces of capitalism to tackle big social problems.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Ultimately, though, the album serves as a compendium of a truly life-altering experience on the road.
    Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the start, Henry labored alone, and Frank applied himself to another joint project, an abridgment of the O.E.D.
    Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The firm sued, calling the order a violation of the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process - a requirement for the government to use a fair legal process.
    Mike Scarcella and David Thomas, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the county lawyer, called corporation counsel, issued a four-page document described as a summary of the findings.
    Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.
    Real-Time News team, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The first two abbreviations are easy enough to understand.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Joshua Jahn wrote using an abbreviation for armor-piercing, according to the FBI.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The Word for World Is Forest envisions space exploration as a recapitulation of earlier colonial conflicts.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • What’s left of it was led, at least for a while, by a 29-year-old White House appointee who helped craft Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint that broadly calls for the curtailment of civil rights enforcement.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In past shutdowns, that has led to the closures of hundreds of national parks and museums, the curtailment of veterans' services, the suspension of health inspections, the postponement of immigration hearings and a slew of other impacts.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The doctor shortage was already acute and is contributing to a shortening of the lifespans of rural Americans, says Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association.
    NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In a stand mixer, thoroughly cream together the shortening, margarine, 3 cups of the sugar, and the eggs.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the center of the room, swathed in shadow, is the faint spectral outline of a small boy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely oval outline and a dark dust filament that gives it the appearance of an aquatic creature.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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