compound
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As his star rose, he attracted amused attention with his Manhattan penthouse and Palm Beach compound, both outfitted to the gills in golden decor.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
“We obviously hope for every co-investment to get this large,” Scott Wilson, WashU’s endowment chief, wrote in an email, “but few businesses compound at this rate for such a long period of time.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
“The more high-quality businesses that reach public markets, the greater the chance that a handful will compound at outsized rates and anchor index returns over a decade or more.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
A promising experimental compound developed by researchers at ETH Zurich could offer a new way to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
My family—my father, my mother, my little sister, Tabitha, and I—lived in a compound with another family.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
Vocabulary lists containing compound
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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