compressed

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“His transfer came a few months earlier, not a few days earlier. The contours of the relationships between Stagg and Krick and the others are accurate, but they took place in a more compressed timeline.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Memory is a historically cyclical industry, which has kept Sandisk’s multiple compressed.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

During those periods, bursts of charged particles from the Sun compressed Earth's magnetosphere, the invisible magnetic shield surrounding the planet.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

That’s because GPA has become so compressed that distinction is increasingly challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

After a few laps, I had compressed the soil enough to have a solid path.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir