compressed
Example Sentences
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“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
It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Martinez noted that Goldman now trades on just 13 times 2027 earnings, its multiple having compressed from 15 times before the second-quarter release.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
He compressed the time-scale to such an extent that, watching the movie, one is drawn into a gathering tide of events that precludes reflection or analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
This would be rather difficult, however: the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch, the size of the nucleus of an atom!
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
