Example sentences for: compounding

How can you use “compounding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Health Care Terms contains a good deal besides initialisms, but I focus on those because they are probably most representative of the jargon we are faced with whenever we encounter the Bureaucracy: as if the compounding of incomprehensible, undescriptive jargon were not enough, those who concoct that obfuscating gobbledygook are not content till they have turned it into an abbreviation or an acronym.

  • He lectures on the need to privatize Social Security (he refers to the "miracle of compounding" with the same reverence that most Christians reserve for loaves and fishes).

  • Compounding native English words or elements produces all classes of combinations—noun: farmhouse ; verb: understand ; adjective: twenty-one ; adverb: herewith ; preposition: into ; pronoun: someone ; conjunction: because ; interjection: good grief . It is also a gradual process, as evidenced by the sequence of to day, to-day, today .

  • Germond and Tony Blankley (Late Edition ) warn against drawing too many lessons from an isolated, senseless episode of evil, and Bill Kristol (ABC's This Week ) cautions all against compounding the crime by "committing sociology," i.e., relieving the two child-shooters of moral responsibility for their evildoing.

  • In other words, if the story had any truth to it, Bush would be fatally compounding his problem by pulling a Clinton.


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