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compress

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


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An already announced portfolio-company paydown is expected to further compress the ratio to 0.3 times.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

These mathematical structures compress the information contained in a wave function so that it can be handled more efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Add the growth variable to the mix, however, “and believe it or not, these peers have seen their post-2020 multiples compress by even more.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

I heard the door and opened my eyes to see the nurse with a cold compress in her hand.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

“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

"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

We can trace it clearly through Newton’s notebooks, even if he compresses it in his first publication.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

However, researchers had not been able to directly observe the atomic structure of the compressed material, leaving the proposed intermediate phase unconfirmed.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 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

It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

The team doctor instructed me to keep it elevated, compressed, and to ice it every few hours.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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

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

The mathematics are proprietary, but Hassibi said the effect was much like compressing a digital photograph without losing visual fidelity.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

The goblin clung even tighter as they moved into the compressing darkness, and seconds later Harry’s feet found pavement and he opened his eyes on Charing Cross Road.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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