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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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As competition in the chip space heats up and design timelines compress, companies will need to supplement their design capacity with AI agents, resulting in greater usage of Cadence’s platform, Celino said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

“Potential regulatory tightening on highly speculative or high-velocity products, particularly weekly index options, could disproportionately compress top-line growth given the high concentration of transaction charges in the revenue mix,” Emkay Research analysts wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Far below Europa's bitterly cold exterior, a global ocean may remain liquid because Jupiter's immense gravitational pull repeatedly stretches and compresses the moon.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

This capability compresses the timeline between discovery and exploitation, placing immense pressure on organizations to fix vulnerabilities before attackers act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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

We can trace it clearly through Newton’s notebooks, even if he compresses it in his first publication.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In recent years, the country has also encouraged the use of compressed natural gas to power vehicles, with natural gas plants and filling stations set up mostly in the largest city, Dar es Salaam.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The greater decrease in nerve size suggested that hydrodissection was more effective at reducing swelling around the compressed nerve.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

The emphasis is on the speed of the take-up because the industry is moving so fast, development cycles are being compressed all the time and some models are now obsolete within six months.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

“These pricing plans reflect some improvements in demand as well as firms’ desire to recover margins compressed by earlier cost increases,” the survey said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

You become compressed in the direction of motion, your mass increases, and time, as you experience it, slows down, a breathtaking consequence of traveling close to the speed of light called time dilation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“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

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

His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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