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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

These mathematical structures compress the information contained in a wave function so that it can be handled more efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

If growth slows, valuation multiples could compress quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Wall Street anticipates Oracle’s operating margins to compress by about 3 percentage points as the company’s business mix shifts toward OCI, a more capital-intensive part of the business.

From MarketWatch Jun. 9, 2026

“Ring for that compress, would you? I’ll be in my study, resting. With any luck I’ll be up and about later, after the lozenge takes effect.”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

"Tessera compresses loads of that data and gives us really easy-to-use maps of the UK, where we can ask really specific questions about things we can see from space."

From BBC May 18, 2026

Because gas compresses when cooled, large LNG tankers can hold enough energy to power 70,000 homes for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2026

TurboQuant compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory storing mid-conversation computations.

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

Smelling salts were called for and cold compresses applied.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Rising rates and this depressed investor sentiment have compressed the price-to-book ratio to 1.7 times.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

"Before the war, we were the ones calling factories, trying to sell our material," Romany told AFP, standing beside towering bales of compressed plastic.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

One possible answer lies in contemporary market dynamics: specifically, recent prolonged bull runs and unprecedentedly compressed recovery timelines.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

That tightly compressed structure is notoriously challenging to assemble.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

Stars like the Sun are born in batches, in great compressed cloud complexes such as the Orion Nebula.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

“Higher costs are eroding household purchasing power and compressing business margins, while heightened uncertainty is dampening business confidence and investment,” the UN said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

A ramjet External link uses an aircraft’s speed to “ram” air into the engine, compressing it in the process.

From Barron's May 19, 2026

This is compressing cost structures, lowering wage costs and boosting earnings growth, especially among small caps, driving margin expansion.

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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