compress
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A key benefit of the design is that it does not require energy to compress air before combustion begins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Higher rates don’t just compress stock valuations — they could also reduce the amount companies are willing or able to spend on capital expenditures, Kersmanc noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
They also installed advanced sensors that can detect movement up to one-billionth of a meter by using fiber optic cables that can extend or compress if any ground deformation occurs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Using AI to compress drug discovery from years to as little as nine months, it is developing products catering to the local market but that are more novel than what homegrown firms can offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He puts a compress bandage directly over the wound and pulls Phineas's nightcap down tightly over it.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Tessera compresses loads of that data and gives us really easy-to-use maps of the UK, where we can ask really specific questions about things we can see from space."
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
TurboQuant compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory storing mid-conversation computations.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
Smelling salts were called for and cold compresses applied.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Both numbers are Taalas’s own, and the cheaper one buys tokens from a compressed model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
At extremely high densities, quantum effects can generate powerful pressure that prevents matter from being compressed without limit.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The bank’s 18% year-to-date share price gain has compressed its dividend yield to about 5%, broadly in line with peers, while its 3.5 billion ringgit capital management plan appears largely priced in, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“A shorter timeline would be artificially compressed and risks depriving this Court of a full record on which to decide this $110 billion case.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
We rode up the face of it so fast my organs shifted toward my spine and compressed my lungs.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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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
While the force between individual atoms is weak, it becomes remarkably strong across the large surface area of two dimensional materials, pulling the sheets together and compressing the water trapped between them.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
This is compressing cost structures, lowering wage costs and boosting earnings growth, especially among small caps, driving margin expansion.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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