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The President had wanted indemnification to be paid over 30 years at 3% uncompounded interest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every individual is an infinite treasury of sensations, ideas, acquired lore, thoughts, &c.; and yet the ego is one and uncompounded, a deep featureless characterless mine, in which all this is stored up, without existing.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Are there no uncompounded things—no simple things in the world?”

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

When a word ends in a preceded by a single uncompounded consonant, the a is not pronounced; thus, kisȃna, sounded kisȃn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

And therefore Hardness may be reckon'd the Property of all uncompounded Matter.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir