- present tense form of compound (3rd person singular).
compounds
Example Sentences
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Many operate out of massive compounds overseas, cultivating deep emotional or romantic attachments with their victims online.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the future, such systems could help scientists engineer biological machinery that carries out new functions or produces compounds that do not naturally exist.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
Among the compounds tested, pterostilbene produced the strongest reduction in intracellular lipid accumulation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
"There is an overwhelming amount of firsthand documentation indicating that dam-building compounds the glacial melt and permafrost melt already underway from warming," Tikos added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
“You know, 1 should have let Sheriff Dean arrest both of you for tampering with a medicinal product and endangering the public health. My elixirs are carefully synthesized compounds of potentially dangerous elements.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
