compress
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Egan-Jones addressed effects on venture capital, pointing out that startups can reach scale faster with less money, so those firms will ultimately lose leverage and see returns compress.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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
“Potential regulatory tightening on highly speculative or high-velocity products, particularly weekly index options, could disproportionately compress top-line growth given the high concentration of transaction charges in the revenue mix,” Emkay Research analysts wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"So what do you need to make a black hole? Well, you have to compress some energy into a really small volume," Giddings explained.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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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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
Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
TurboQuant compresses that memory by a factor of six.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
They vary somewhat, but most are on an abysmal scale of 1:100,000, which ludicrously compresses every kilometer of real world into a mere centimeter of map.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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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
Another source said the process "should" be resolved by the end of the season, and they hoped any appeal would be "compressed".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
"And if they both went off together, then you've got potentially San Francisco. Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He noted that the nation's "intensely compressed" industrialisation happened in just a few decades, while it took centuries in many Western countries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Stars like the Sun are born in batches, in great compressed cloud complexes such as the Orion Nebula.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
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
They have rarely had to contend with those signals arriving in seconds, compressing the space between diplomatic gesture and market consequence to near zero.
From Barron's ● Apr. 18, 2026
In épée, you score a point by compressing the tip of the blade of the sword anywhere on your opponent’s body, from the head to the toes.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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