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compress

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


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During these encounters, enormous interstellar "cold clouds" may have pressed against the heliosphere with enough force to dramatically compress it.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

At his July press conference, Warsh acknowledged public frustration with price pressures while tempering expectations that the central bank could compress the timeline by which inflation would fall to its 2% goal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Still, the West End hasn’t been spared the squeeze as rising costs outpace inflation and compress profit margins.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

“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

I took the compress from Jonas’s head and went to cool it in the snow.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

More cold compresses were delivered, and a hot-water bottle, and a headache lozenge.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The analysts think banks with greater reliance on retail fees, particularly Commonwealth, may face extra headwinds at a time when mortgage margins are already compressed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Palantir’s current valuation level has already compressed significantly from its late-2025 peak of over 230 times forward earnings.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

That was harder, because the clean air had to be trapped and compressed into a tank.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Fusion requires heating and compressing nuclear fuel to make superheated plasma in which atomic nuclei combine, releasing energy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 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

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

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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