compact
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The last World Cup was in Qatar, making it the most territorially compact World Cup ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"Because of their enormous mass and compact size, they strongly bend passing light. Starlight from the same host galaxy can be focused into extraordinarily bright images, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing."
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
These include ultrathin broadband polarizers that control the direction of light in compact optical systems, as well as sub-diffractional waveguides capable of guiding light through spaces smaller than those allowed by conventional optics.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Last to go was the compact Escape SUV.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
A beautiful theory will be simple, compact, and spare; it will give a sense of completeness and often an eerie sense of symmetry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing compact
com-, con-
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"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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