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Researchers there used the powerful magnetic fields of the Z machine to shock compress tiny diamond samples.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

An already announced portfolio-company paydown is expected to further compress the ratio to 0.3 times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

This caused the Treasury yield curve — the gap between short- and long-dated yields — to compress dramatically.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 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

Yossarian sprinkled this one with sulfanilamide too and continued unwinding the gauze around Snowden’s leg until the compress was secure.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

“It is agentic-first, it compresses timelines from months to days and it is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends,” Amazon said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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 wrapped her wrists with beaded bracelets, gave her castor-oil enemas, packed hot cactus compresses on her brow.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Valuations of tech stocks have compressed significantly in recent months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Love it or not, they are increasingly the preferred medium, and tennis in the U.S. is a small sport with tons of competition and a compressed window.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Daniel West’s adaptation hits the major plot points and select lines of dialogue, but has typically, unavoidably, been streamlined and compressed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

The cedar skin thus became compressed, forcing the ends of the boat up slightly and lending it what boatbuilders call “camber.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

“Higher costs are eroding household purchasing power and compressing business margins, while heightened uncertainty is dampening business confidence and investment,” the UN said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

He looked at me fixedly, compressing his well-cut lips while he did so.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë