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compressed

[kuhm-prest] / kəmˈprɛst /














ADJECTIVE
wrung
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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

In this process, fine WC and Co powders are compressed under high pressure and heated in sintering machines.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 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 cedar skin thus became compressed, forcing the ends of the boat up slightly and lending it what boatbuilders call “camber.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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