compress
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“If Brent crude remains above $100 a barrel for long, the tax-refund buffer will eventually be exhausted, real income growth will compress further, and aggregate demand will slow.”
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Days after Regeneron announced the strong results, the FDA granted the company a national priority voucher, which can compress the typical 10- to 12-month approval process to a matter of months or even weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
This provided direct evidence of costal aspiration breathing, where muscles between the ribs expand and compress the chest cavity to pull air into the lungs.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
It does not compress the model’s permanent weights.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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