- present tense form of compound (3rd person singular).
compounds
Example Sentences
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Drugmakers racing to develop orexin-mimicking compounds have poured more than $10 billion upfront in deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
At Japan-based Takeda, scientists searched the company’s library of chemical compounds, looking for one that could switch on the orexin receptor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The fact that many of those loans or bonds are held in private vehicles compounds the problem of transparency and liquidity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The team then evaluated how the compounds affected TAOK-1 and assessed whether they had properties considered desirable in potential drugs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
