compressed
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BYD’s valuation appears compressed and overlooks the value and growth potential for its battery assets, they add.
In an author’s note, Davis, a lawyer, says that she changed “all names and some characteristics,” compressed time frames and re-created dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times
Under the intense pressures inside the planet, scientists believe carbon from these clouds could be compressed into diamonds.
From Science Daily
As the already ephemeral freeze-thaw cycle is compressed or diminished, it might be possible, in Canada, to extend the country’s sugar-maple forests by planting trees north of the existing ones.
Even though its operating margins have compressed lately below 20%, the company remains highly profitable with margins that look more like luxury stocks than apparel brands.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.