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If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“You have to learn how to take the big ideas and stories and compress that into a bite,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

But the risk is that someone looking at a P/E ratio may not see as much downside risk as there actually is, he added, because profit margins “tend to compress sharply” during slowdowns.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Because you could die so quickly, each man carried at least one large compress bandage, usually in the helmet band for easy access.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Both Eisenman and Turner recommend cooling your body temperature with cold compresses or cool showers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

Because gas compresses when cooled, large LNG tankers can hold enough energy to power 70,000 homes for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

"J1007+3540 is one of the clearest and most spectacular examples of episodic AGN with jet-cluster interaction, where the surrounding hot gas bends, compresses, and distorts the jets," Dr. Pal explained.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

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

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Given the compressed running time, the film has more memories of Mitt appearing practical and wise than of being a bastard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Keurig is rolling out a line of single-serve coffee rounds made of compressed grounds encased in a seaweed-based coating.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

"And if they both went off together, then you've got potentially San Francisco. Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Almost every commercial aircraft flying today uses the so-called bleed air system that draws compressed, unfiltered air directly from the engine into the aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

“As U.S. diesel stocks near storage limits, downward pressure on diesel prices would intensify, compressing U.S. refining margins, and likely incentivize U.S. refiners to reduce output,” the team wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

There’s a hazy blur to my thoughts, a vise compressing my head.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan