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condense

[kuhn-dens] / kənˈdɛns /


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The clouds, which have been observed during wildfires in Canada and Australia, are created by intense heat that lifts hot smoky air and causes the water vapor to condense into ash.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

The results indicate that fallout formation depends not only on when different elements condense, but also on how they chemically interact with one another as temperatures drop.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2026

Teams would think, if you can condense play in their areas, you can control them - and if it goes over to another part of the pitch, you can cope with it.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

"It can't create rain where there is no moisture in the air, but it just 'forces' some of the water to condense in one location rather than another," he told AFP.

From Barron's Nov. 2, 2025

You're thinking, "Mars's atmosphere isn't liquid. Why does the Hab's air condense?"

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The coating encourages more droplets to appear as water vapor condenses while also making it easier for those droplets to leave the surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

The method captures the balance between water vapor produced as air rises and water vapor removed as it condenses onto droplets.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

As the air rises, it cools and the water vapour condenses into a cloud.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The libretto, by the composer and Manuelle Mureddu, efficiently condenses the novel using a chorus as both narrator and the village community.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

When pressure in the reactor gets too high, a safety valve opens and allows steam to escape into the torus, where it condenses back into water.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Dew gathers on their skin and is channelled towards their mouths through microscopic grooves, while their tongues can also collect fog water condensed on plants, sand and rocks.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

The following excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

After Netflix greenlit a two-hour finale instead, Oseman elected to zero in on her protagonists — not unlike her comics — rather than give each character their own, heavily condensed arc.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

For a time they rode in silence, and then Lee said, “I’m sorry you bought those books. I have the condensed form, in one volume, the textbook. You could have borrowed it.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"What this study suggests is that we may be able to offer those same patients a path to meaningful relief in less than one week by condensing 25 TMS treatments over just five days."

From Science Daily Feb. 25, 2026

The Ombudsman also found the commission "limited the possibility of its departments to provide meaningful input" by condensing internal consultations into "less than 24 hours over a weekend".

From Barron's Nov. 27, 2025

A little more condensing would have been welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Even condensing the story, there’s no fixing the ridiculous ending by which point the film is out of gas.

From New York Times Apr. 11, 2024

Then the shapes of things begin to emerge, grayish and glimmering and insubstantial, as if they’re condensing from the air.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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