compress
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At his July press conference, Warsh acknowledged public frustration with price pressures while tempering expectations that the central bank could compress the timeline by which inflation would fall to its 2% goal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A key benefit of the design is that it does not require energy to compress air before combustion begins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Higher rates don’t just compress stock valuations — they could also reduce the amount companies are willing or able to spend on capital expenditures, Kersmanc noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
She pressed down on the handle to compress the chamber, which pumped air into the kiln.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
TurboQuant compresses that memory by a factor of six.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Neighbors suggested their own remedies: arnica compresses, packed mud from a holy well, ground elephant tusk from the Niger to mix in her daily broth.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
When this genetic slinky is tightly compressed, genes are less accessible and remain switched off.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The bank’s 18% year-to-date share price gain has compressed its dividend yield to about 5%, broadly in line with peers, while its 3.5 billion ringgit capital management plan appears largely priced in, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the compressed mass of people, I find his hand and squeeze it.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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It may pay more, compressing its margins, but it risks less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
Transformer supply could normalize if manufacturing capacity expands, compressing margins for equipment suppliers.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
I cupped my palms around it, compressing the ice into a compact ball.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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