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
"Before the war, we were the ones calling factories, trying to sell our material," Romany told AFP, standing beside towering bales of compressed plastic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
One possible answer lies in contemporary market dynamics: specifically, recent prolonged bull runs and unprecedentedly compressed recovery timelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
You become compressed in the direction of motion, your mass increases, and time, as you experience it, slows down, a breathtaking consequence of traveling close to the speed of light called time dilation.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
