compacted
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Even the design of farm machinery was considered — and tractors were fitted with wider tires to ensure that soil was less compacted when driven over.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
The fibers are then compacted even more tightly to fit inside the nucleus.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
The soil was so compacted that each time they dug a planting hole, it took an hour to drain.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
He ate and slept and ate and slept, and in between bouts of eating and sleeping, he ejected many tiny, compacted green bales from his hind end.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
