compact
Example Sentences
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Compact disc sales were on a steady decline.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
The Mayflower Compact quarter includes a woman on the front.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Working under the terms of the Compact, the US is now strengthening its own military footprint in the archipelago.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
As she explained, the president can only send other states’ National Guards to perform crime control when he has invoked the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2025
Compact, hard, logical, totally selfish, the virus is dedicated to making copies of itself— which it can do on occasion with radiant speed.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing compact
com-, con-
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"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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