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How to use the word compounds in a Sentence?

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Once kids are in compounds, they’re happy and won’t risk destabilizing that compound.

Lisa Damour

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to recognize, first of all, that there is a shift that is occurring from organic compounds and substances like heroin and cocaine to more synthetics, both the types of drugs have changed – from predominantly organic to predominantly synthetics – but the way drugs are bought and sold have also changed.

Rahul Gupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be able to usher my children through this loss, it comes from 40 years of pain and knowing what that little nine-year-old girl needed and received, to lose a parent is traumatic, and the way the parents were lost during the pandemic, to have to grieve in isolation, that compounds the pain exponentially.

Courtesy Veronica Fletcher Veronica Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In terms of some of the symptoms of headache, et cetera, unfortunately volatile organic compounds share, with a host of other things, the ability to cause very common symptoms at the lower levels – so headache, eye irritation, nose irritation, et cetera, i think that we have to look at the measured facts – and the measured facts include the fact that the air sampling in that area really is not pointing toward an air source for this.

Nathen Velez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These economic policies all compound on each other. And you add to that an abortion ban, it just compounds this financial stress, this economic insecurity.

Asha Banerjee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you get some mushrooms from the store and expose their gills — the feathery ribs on the underside of the mushroom cap — to sunlight, their vitamin D content shoots up, there are so many interesting compounds in them.

Olga Katic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It just kind of compounds itself. All of these different issues seem like they're smaller things, but they add up very quickly.

Megan Flores

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's driving this transition by opening this Pandora's Box, because now it’s basically a matter of chemistry, and you can create a number of compounds, is ultimately profits, the profits of transnational criminal organizations is what is driving both the shift, but also this innovation.

Rahul Gupta

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Inflation has taken a toll. The cost of gas, the cost of groceries, it's tough, but I also know that you take away someone's ability to make their health care decisions, that only compounds the pain that families are going to feel.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are many biologically active compounds in coffee specifically that could play Mediterranean Style.

David Kao

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Like many vegetable oils, soybean oil is highly refined. This means it goes through an extensive process involving numerous chemicals to extract it from corn and make it into oil, this production process makes soybean oil more prone to becoming oxidized — and when we have a lot of oxidized compounds in our body, we put ourselves at risk for multiple diseases.

Jay Cowin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These plant compounds preserve collagen in the skin, keeping it hydrated and youthful. The vitamin C found in pomegranates also helps the body produce its own collagen, since it is a precursor in the formation process.

Kylie Ivanir

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Pomegranates are high in vitamin C and contain many potent antioxidants, including flavonoids and anthocyanins. Together, these nutrients help protect our cells against the stress and oxidative damage that are a normal part of aging. The seeds, peels, and juice of pomegranate also contain powerful anti-aging phytochemicals known as punicalagins, these plant compounds preserve collagen in the skin, keeping it hydrated and youthful. The vitamin C found in pomegranates also helps the body produce its own collagen, since it is a precursor in the formation process.

Kylie Ivanir

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dark leafy greens are a powerhouse of beneficial nutrients, including fiber, micronutrients and bioactive plant compounds known as phytochemicals.

Isa Kujawski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Grape skins contain resveratrol, a powerful polyphenol. Polyphenols are compounds found in plants, which have been shown to benefit the human body. More specifically, resveratrol is part of the stilbenoid family. Stilbenoids are a natural compound produced by certain plants in response to injury. The purpose of stilbenoids is to protect the plant, similarly, resveratrol has been shown to protect the cardiovascular system.

Amy Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's abundantly clear that parents are concerned about the quality of education — Virginia recently posted staggering learning loss numbers over the course of the pandemic, which compounds the already abysmal proficiency rates in the state, when schools obsessively focus on DEI initiatives, that's time and resources that are not being spent on core curriculum.

Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compounds, safety is very important.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are other compounds that might be harmful to humans. I wouldn’t take that risk.

Matt Kasson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The reason I say this and the reason I'm getting emotional in this moment is because these folks who tell us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what's happened, or even telling us to apologize. These are the same tactics of abusers. And, um, I'm a survivor of sexual assault, and I haven't told many people that in my life. But when we go through trauma, trauma compounds on each other. And so, whether you had a negligent or a neglectful parent, and -- or whether you had someone who was verbally abusive to you, whether you are a survivor of abuse, whether you experience any sort of trauma in your life, small to large -- these episodes can compound on one another.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life.

Philipp Heck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Much more work needs to be done to better understand the individual chemical pathways of the different compounds and the different processes that the organic matter went through.

Philipp Heck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It should be added to the growing list of compounds that are tested in laboratory animals. That's it, the likelihood that this would actually emerge as a proven therapy is still remote.

Peter Hotez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You can find online a preprint, non-peer-reviewed paper that seems to suggest that in vitro, in other words in test tubes, that there is some antiviral activity for this compound, but I can tell you there are millions of compounds that, when tested in vitro, in a test tube, appear to have some antiviral activity but that are worthless in vivo, in humans.

Jonathan Reiner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is possible that compounds that failed to make it to the market due to failure of efficacy in the preclinical animals research stages, could have been effective therapies in women, or vice versa.

Adam Moeser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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