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Entire cities have been lost, “the land beneath them compressed and lowered, so they did not drain, but persisted like glacial lakes.”

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Lossless audio files allow for listeners to stream music using the least compressed and highest resolution audio formats can have, the company said.

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The technology uses the bobbing floaters to compress pistons, which push hydraulic fluid into storage tanks located nearby on land.

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Intermittent fasting compresses eating into a short daily window, often eight hours, leaving a 16-hour gap without food.

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Historical scholarship on the draft riots is intensive and disputatious; my only concluding point is that they seem to contain all the most painful and contradictory lessons of our nation’s history in compressed form.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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