compend

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Noun
  • Add to this compendium Lewis’s culinary team and local peers, and the simmering soup is nearly ready to serve.
    Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Dozens of Dilbert books were published over 30 years, including anniversary compendiums and humorous self-help guides, like 1998’s The Joy of Work.
    People Staff, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board candidates who are suing the Shelby County Election Commission over term abridgment had a win in court recently.
    Brooke Muckerman, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • That’s the summary that quickly spread across tabloids and celebrity-news sites.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Back then, the abbreviation PLG felt like a harbinger of gentrification that would protect my property value.
    Naomi Jackson, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The three-letter acronym isn't an abbreviation of a country delegation — its athletes are tied to Russia, whose nation's flag will not be present following a series of doping scandals and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Nestled between an introduction section and an ending, Zhang found a familiar pattern: exposition, development and recapitulation.
    Stella Mayerhoff, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Its resurgence has raised concerns among minorities and women workers who fear a potential curtailment of women’s rights if conservative elements gain influence.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Many types of utopias have been articulated in late-modern culture, each one a distillation of some community’s desire for relief from the strictures and curtailments of life’s possibilities.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Using a pastry blender, cut in butter and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
    Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Experts have predicted that AI systems capable of autonomously improving themselves, otherwise known as recursive self-improvement, might vastly increase the speed at which AI development takes place, potentially shortening years of complex research into weeks or even days.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The film vaguely follows the basic outline of the first half of the novel, heavily streamlining the twisted tale of family strife and generational trauma into a more conventional tragic romance centered squarely on Catherine and Heathcliff.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For now, the tax agency advises taxpayers to rely on its outline for the rules when filing their returns this year.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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