- present tense form of compound (3rd person singular).
compounds
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals used roughly 50 AI companies to comb through its data set of 10,000 drug compounds, but none generated a working drug.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The two compounds belong to a chemical family called trisulfides.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Vertex has used roughly 50 AI companies to comb through its data set of 10,000 drug compounds, Leiden said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Researchers discovered BRP with the help of artificial intelligence, which allowed them to search through thousands of possible biological compounds.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
In China, families lived in compounds; a splintering in the family was called dividing the kitchen, and often meant that, literally.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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