COMPENDS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

compends

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plural of compend

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There will be controversy, grift and venality, supporters will get lost and lose themselves in a fog of legalese, accounting and abbreviations — VAR, SCR, LOL, FFS — there will be ugliness and misgivings and a lot of meh.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
For spacing purposes, Steele has removed the following words – left, at, by, went, had, in, the, to, for, and, then and got – and has crafted his own abbreviations.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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But before streaming made separating singles wheat from album chaff almost free and very easy, greatest-hits compendiums were ubiquitous, a way for the industry to turn early investment into real profit.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026
Among the books found missing from UCLA's collections were classic compendiums of Chinese cultural heritage.

— Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Definition of compendiums

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With a Bee Pro subscription, which costs $12 per month, users can get unlimited conversation summaries and daily memories as well as integrations with Amazon's webstore, its Alexa+ AI assistant and third-party apps.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
The rollout includes Genmoji, notification summaries, Writing Tools, and the Clean Up photo-editing tool.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of summaries

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And inventories of used electric vehicles dropped too, with only 31 days of supply in May, 23% below the year before.

— John Paul Helveston, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
The group warned that even if refineries step up production of diesel into the year-end, inventories will likely remain strained until the second half of 2027.

— Gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

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These are perfect negatives of the original objects, sometimes so detailed that the outlines of wood cells are visible under a microscope.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
Lichtenstein rose to prominence for canvases that drew inspiration from bold black outlines, flat bright colors, and fields of dots that defined commercial printing across comic books, advertisements, and newspapers.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of outlines

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Only the machinations of ABC/Disney and my own rogue immune system have kept me from writing recaps here on Vulture over the last 11 years.

— Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
In a press release, Pearl Abyss t recaps that Crimson Desert has had 17 major updates since its release on March 19.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of recaps

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