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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

Watters wanted to compress El-Sayed into a caricature, a radical leftist Muslim candidate who could be made alien and threatening to the people watching at home.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

At his July press conference, Warsh acknowledged public frustration with price pressures while tempering expectations that the central bank could compress the timeline by which inflation would fall to its 2% goal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Next he began binding the compress in place with a roll of gauze.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Both Eisenman and Turner recommend cooling your body temperature with cold compresses or cool showers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Far below Europa's bitterly cold exterior, a global ocean may remain liquid because Jupiter's immense gravitational pull repeatedly stretches and compresses the moon.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 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

Because gas compresses when cooled, large LNG tankers can hold enough energy to power 70,000 homes for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

A woman was pressing moist compresses to his forehead, and gathered around him were almost all his tenants, staring at him with intense curiosity.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

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

Skovronsky said the high dropout rate was partly due to patients switching to higher doses more quickly than they ordinarily would because of the compressed study timeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

When I nodded to her in greeting, she compressed her lips and looked at Ba.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

“As U.S. diesel stocks near storage limits, downward pressure on diesel prices would intensify, compressing U.S. refining margins, and likely incentivize U.S. refiners to reduce output,” the team wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 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

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

Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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