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“It’s time to renew that compact while also recognizing the ecosystem needs to evolve,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Their compact size is one of their most useful features.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

A compact defensive shape, disciplined pressing and quick transitions could force Barcelona away from their preferred rhythm.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

If all goes to plan, cargo ships will be fitted with small modular reactors, which are much more compact, and less dangerous, than their large-scale predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The compact three-story home was painted a stark white with frosty mint-colored shutters draping the second-story windows.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

"That is why country strategies and compacts matter. Roadmaps built around a country's ambitions, the results we are trying to achieve together, and the investments and reforms required to get there," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Under such compacts, the U.S. partners are technically sovereign nations that rely on U.S. financial support and defense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

By design, the details of how "freedom cities" would be established are laden with legalese like "federal enclaves with special economic and jurisdictional zones" or "interstate compacts."

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025

“The social compacts that the people have sown in them are very ingrained.”

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

Kaz had told her to keep an eye out for women using similarly made mirrored compacts at the Crow Club.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Even the design of farm machinery was considered — and tractors were fitted with wider tires to ensure that soil was less compacted when driven over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Way-marked pistes are generally protected by pre-emptive avalanche blasting, and their snow is flattened and compacted to further reduce the risk.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

The researchers also found that synthetic condensates closely resemble compacted chromatin found in cells.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

“We need to stop the overdraft of compacting aquifers,” Knight and Lees wrote, suggesting that efforts be strategically “targeted to the deeper parts of the aquifer system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024

However, there are also many disadvantages of compacting your lifestyle into a space not much bigger than a motel room.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023

After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez