compact
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Mummery's turbine is ultra compact and low cost compared to these giant machines.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It would have been highly presumptuous for me just to make a rash decision about what we were going to do without listening,” he said of the compact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
And according to specialist publication Via Satellite, Eutelsat's OneWeb constellation is unable to support drone and ground robot operations because of its limited capacity and lack of compact satellite terminals.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Ukrainian forces began using the cheap, compact satellite terminals soon after Russia’s 2022 invasion to securely communicate with commanders and other units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
I saw Madrid come up over the plain, a compact white sky-line on the top of a little cliff away off across the sun-hardened country.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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"That is why country strategies and compacts matter. Roadmaps built around a country's ambitions, the results we are trying to achieve together, and the investments and reforms required to get there," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The compacts of free association with the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau were negotiated to resolve a specific historical reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
By design, the details of how "freedom cities" would be established are laden with legalese like "federal enclaves with special economic and jurisdictional zones" or "interstate compacts."
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
North Dakota relied on compacts to bring in law enforcement officers from around the region and the country for help, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
I did not understand the nonimportation compacts which my countrymen in their anger had raised against English products.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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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
He said trampling not only caused the flowers to break but also meant the ground underneath the plants becomes compacted so new plants could not grow.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
The fibers are then compacted even more tightly to fit inside the nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
I yank the zip and seal away the compacted version of my life I’m going to be living with.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
However, there are also many disadvantages of compacting your lifestyle into a space not much bigger than a motel room.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023
The trick is to do some gentle prep without compacting the soil, which can damage emerging seedlings and reduce infiltration, making it more susceptible to runoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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