compend

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Noun
  • The ban, which was featured in a Park Service compendium of regulations that dated May 20, went into effect after several protests at El Capitan made headlines.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This book, more think-tank report than scholarly monograph, provides a useful factual compendium of background material about Polish defense policy—although the absence of an index or a digital version remains a major obstacle to its efficient use.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Analysts now warn that Patel's on-air summaries may force prosecutors to respond in court, potentially complicating an already fast-moving and closely watched prosecution.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This is crucial since AI summaries often skip site visits.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Before the abbreviation stuck, the property was known as the Kildare Hotel and Golf Club.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These terms are abbreviations for probability: a 10-year flood is a volume of flow that occurs on average once every 10 years, based on the records of flow for that stream.
    Ellen Wohl August 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Word for World Is Forest envisions space exploration as a recapitulation of earlier colonial conflicts.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
  • The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The move to question Europe’s harsh CO2 curtailment rules coincides with Trump Administration efforts to terminate rules based on the case that CO2 is a danger to public health These rules form the basis for U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The curtailment of academic freedom, the deportation of foreign students, the banning of protests: all of this is being done under the pretext of protecting Jews, who alone are entitled to protections that other groups apparently don’t merit.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jones asserted that exigent circumstances warranted the shortening of the 15-day notice window.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But slow oxygen chemistry has remained a stubborn bottleneck, wasting energy and shortening battery life.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here's an outline of some of those moral and ethical dilemmas that appear to be keeping Altman awake at night.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Tillman wore a stunning all-white suit and bowtie, while Cumming sported a chic black suit accented with white outlines, and a giant pussybow tie.
    James Factora, Them., 14 Sep. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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