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
An anonymous sheet by an Austrian designer from about 1515 shows the whole operation compressed into a single image of a finial, upon which are inscribed the subdivided squares that generated it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Together, these properties allow light to become concentrated and compressed far beyond traditional physical limits.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Fuel is injected into the compressed air, and hot exhaust gases exit the back, producing powerful thrust.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
For a moment they were silent, facing each other, their shoulders thrown back, their lips compressed to hold down the mounting impulse to laugh.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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