compressing
Example Sentences
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Winds can force floes farther north and push them into other ice, compressing the overall area covered by sea ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The “relentless supply of new workers” is compressing wages across professions, said Saurabh Mukherjea, founder of Mumbai-based Marcellus Investment Managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
They have rarely had to contend with those signals arriving in seconds, compressing the space between diplomatic gesture and market consequence to near zero.
From Barron's ● Apr. 18, 2026
He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
