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compressed

[kuhm-prest] / kəmˈprɛst /














ADJECTIVE
wrung
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Before Arendt became the great thinker of statelessness, bureaucracy had compressed her into these terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In this process, fine WC and Co powders are compressed under high pressure and heated in sintering machines.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

“A shorter timeline would be artificially compressed and risks depriving this Court of a full record on which to decide this $110 billion case.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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