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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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As competition in the chip space heats up and design timelines compress, companies will need to supplement their design capacity with AI agents, resulting in greater usage of Cadence’s platform, Celino said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Why this is notable: Such a development could compress years of progress into months or less and outpace humans’ ability to understand it, the authors said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“You have to learn how to take the big ideas and stories and compress that into a bite,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Once the fighting had ended and the master had been served his meal, I took a cool compress and mug of cold ale up to Madam.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

“It is agentic-first, it compresses timelines from months to days and it is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends,” Amazon said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

This capability compresses the timeline between discovery and exploitation, placing immense pressure on organizations to fix vulnerabilities before attackers act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

My chest compresses into a tiny, pulsing ball.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Given the compressed running time, the film has more memories of Mitt appearing practical and wise than of being a bastard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Their calculations suggest that changing the order in which plasma is heated and compressed could dramatically reduce the energy needed to reach a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Keurig is rolling out a line of single-serve coffee rounds made of compressed grounds encased in a seaweed-based coating.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

At the periphery, interstellar matter is compressed by the supernova shock wave, triggering new generations of cloud collapse and star formation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

It may pay more, compressing its margins, but it risks less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Because she was heavily sedated, Pita slept through the lancing and compressing and didn’t come back around until Abuelita Remedios was done wrapping her leg with a pale thin gauze.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall


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