compress
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That caused valuations to compress, even as share prices largely continued moving higher.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Delayed grandparenthood can compress the healthy years seniors spend actively involved in their grandchildren’s lives, including providing free child care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Watters wanted to compress El-Sayed into a caricature, a radical leftist Muslim candidate who could be made alien and threatening to the people watching at home.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The nurse at Jamison puts a bandage over the laceration and asks me to hold an icy compress on my wound, which I do.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Far below Europa's bitterly cold exterior, a global ocean may remain liquid because Jupiter's immense gravitational pull repeatedly stretches and compresses the moon.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It is agentic-first, it compresses timelines from months to days and it is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends,” Amazon said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
"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
Their happy chatter, cold compresses, spiritual counsel, and personal charm restored the bruised bodies and grieving souls of both mother and daughter.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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In recent years, the country has also encouraged the use of compressed natural gas to power vehicles, with natural gas plants and filling stations set up mostly in the largest city, Dar es Salaam.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Central peaks can develop when rocks compressed by a powerful collision rebound upward, somewhat like the way water rises in the center after an object splashes into a pool.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
As sphagnum grows, its lower layers are compressed by the weight above.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
She drew her shoulders back, pulled up her spine, and compressed her lips.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
It may pay more, compressing its margins, but it risks less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
While the force between individual atoms is weak, it becomes remarkably strong across the large surface area of two dimensional materials, pulling the sheets together and compressing the water trapped between them.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
It worked by compressing air into a container with a bellows and using the compressed air to power a dart or pellet.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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