compound
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Ferrari set the pace on the medium tyres in the first part of Friday's opening session but they could not match the pace of the Mercedes on the soft compound.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The U.S. government seized $225 million in cryptocurrency during Operation Big Tuna to disrupt an alleged scam compound in the Philippines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
After he graduated, Smith moved into a big red barn on a compound in Upstate New York, which he rented from film director James Ivory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Under the tax rules at the time, each grandchild would have been able to stretch distributions over their lifetime, giving them the ability to compound decades of tax-deferred growth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
He worked on the rope-making crew in the compound next to Phillips and each noon they managed to exchange a few words through the barbed wire separating the two enclosures.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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In its 2026 review, the European Food Safety Authority noted that the compounds detected in the rat study could have been impurities already present in the administered sucralose.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Their subsequent work identified sucralose-6-acetate as one of the compounds of interest.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
By engineering yeast, scientists have developed a system that can transform compounds from plastic and agricultural waste into edible proteins, vitamins, flavorings, and other food ingredients.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Infrared radiation emitted by the surface can provide clues about which minerals and chemical compounds are present.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
He watched her walk to the hedge that separated the two compounds and slip underneath it.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Recognizing that 9/11’s horrors compounded over the years does not degrade the memory of its initial victims.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Instead, it has a compounded effect, one that will make its way through the economy over the next three to six months, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The weakness was compounded by rising imports and a second consecutive quarterly decline in investment, as exports grew only modestly and businesses and public corporations pulled back on capital spending.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Market-share losses to Chinese rivals will likely be compounded by the cuts to Volkswagen’s model lineup, noted Citi auto analyst Harald Hendrikse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The passage of Prohibition had only compounded the territory’s feeling of lawlessness by encouraging organized crime and creating, in the words of one historian, “the greatest criminal bonanza in American history.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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It noted two recent recalls due to contaminants at compounding pharmacies that produce glutathione.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The same water supply network feeds several other locations across the capital's Royal Parks, compounding broader operational pressures faced by maintenance staff over the summer.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
It also uses recursive self-improvement, in which a model teaches itself how to improve, producing a compounding series of gains in intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The sooner families like you start investing, the more time they have to grow their college fund through the magic of compounding, the JP Morgan report adds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Traffic has been getting increasingly worse, and the GPS apps keep giving everyone the same alternate routes, just compounding the problem.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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