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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

A key benefit of the design is that it does not require energy to compress air before combustion begins.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Higher rates don’t just compress stock valuations — they could also reduce the amount companies are willing or able to spend on capital expenditures, Kersmanc noted.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

They also installed advanced sensors that can detect movement up to one-billionth of a meter by using fiber optic cables that can extend or compress if any ground deformation occurs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

She needed a blanket, a compress, a sedative tablet.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

This capability compresses the timeline between discovery and exploitation, placing immense pressure on organizations to fix vulnerabilities before attackers act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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 wrapped her wrists with beaded bracelets, gave her castor-oil enemas, packed hot cactus compresses on her brow.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Palantir’s current valuation level has already compressed significantly from its late-2025 peak of over 230 times forward earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

When this genetic slinky is tightly compressed, genes are less accessible and remain switched off.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The roads, still packed with vendors, felt even more crowded than before, so compressed with people that it was impossible to walk without being jostled.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

AI is disproportionately compressing the bottom layer of white-collar production: drafting, summarizing, coding, documentation, reporting and routine analytical work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan