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Researchers believe future versions could become significantly smaller and more energy efficient, potentially compact enough to fit inside a shoebox.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

These tools are compact, making them easy to store and keep in your vehicle.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

However, he also said that the compact is woefully out of date and should be scrapped and rewritten to match the reality of the shrinking river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

At 15 he decided he wanted something fun, so he paid $3,000 for a 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24—a sporty version of Chevy’s boxy compact car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

She washed her face, ears, and hair four more times with wipes, wishing she’d remembered to bring a compact mirror.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

“We would all benefit together by figuring out the community compacts required to enable sustainable development across the country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

For years, American drivers have been gravitating toward sport utility vehicles and away from sedans, compacts and hatchbacks.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

North Dakota relied on compacts to bring in law enforcement officers from around the region and the country for help, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

In compacts, we ourselves determine and promise what shall be done, before we are obliged to do it; in laws, we are obliged to act without ourselves determining or promising any thing at all.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023

I did not understand the nonimportation compacts which my countrymen in their anger had raised against English products.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

It was always going to be difficult for the second period to match the high-octane tempo of the first, and instead the decisive moments, both mad and magnificent, were compacted into the final few minutes.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

He ate and slept and ate and slept, and in between bouts of eating and sleeping, he ejected many tiny, compacted green bales from his hind end.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“We have to be strategic with what we do with this recharge. Where subsidence is causing the most harm, we’ve got to try and get it to those compacting aquifers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

He has defended himself by saying his focus was on "social compacting", or building consensus.

From BBC ● May 31, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 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