Word: compounded
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...word processor outside scheduler Nancy Hernreich's office to fiddle with language about seizing the day, decipher Clinton's marginal notes and find a numbers person. So many people were crowded into this cubicle -- speechwriter David Kusnet, Stephanopoulos, the crew from the war room who had not left the compound since Sunday -- that it looked like the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Hillary Clinton was reworking some of the jargon in the middle of the speech with economic adviser Robert Rubin. The motorcade was forming on the South Lawn...
...likened the study of science to the structure of a chemical compound, a "multidimensional system of many parts connected by flexible bonds." This model emphasizes both "complexity and interconnections," she said...
Stella Kourembanas, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical School, said a great deal of attention has been focused on nitric oxide since the discovery in 1987 of its effects on the lung's blood vessels. In 1992, Science named the compound "Molecule of the Year...
Birthday: The main noun of the phrase. A compound word, made of two nouns, the first of which, "birth" serves as more an adjective, describing the more nounly "day," indicating the day on which someone was birthed...
...This compound noun is then given a modifier: Happy, Quite obviously an adjective meaning joy, pleasure, balloons of hope, warm fuzzies, two kinds of ice cream, finding your skate key...It is less a simple description than a sort of prophecy, full of hope...