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Example sentences for: compounded

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While the year's first few months are a time of optimism, they say, the end of the year is characterized by pessimism compounded by the onset of winter.
Two trends over the past twenty-five years have compounded the problems inherent in the traditional retail model.
Seemingly endemic corruption was compounded by a remarkable dearth of political leadership and decisive action.
In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.
Stirrup has been compounded from the Old English stige `ascent' + rāp .' Anglo-Saxon stirrups were made of rope and were probably used for ascending objects other than horses.