Example Sentences

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"The G4 central banks' balance sheets have been compounding by 15% since 2008. And my point is that's not going to stop. It's not going to get shut off."

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2021

From the mythological times of �sculapius down to the present day, votaries of medical science have been compounding, diagnosing, and prescribing for helpless, suffering humanity.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe

Had we lived in the days of the old medicine, I would have been compounding a purge out of the blood of a goat, and the ashes of an heifer, and the juice of hyssop. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Whyte, Alexander