compressed

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Aslef says the voluntary compressed four-day week gives participating drivers an extra 35 days off a year "in return for some fairly minor changes to working conditions".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

“His transfer came a few months earlier, not a few days earlier. The contours of the relationships between Stagg and Krick and the others are accurate, but they took place in a more compressed timeline.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

An anonymous sheet by an Austrian designer from about 1515 shows the whole operation compressed into a single image of a finial, upon which are inscribed the subdivided squares that generated it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

During those periods, bursts of charged particles from the Sun compressed Earth's magnetosphere, the invisible magnetic shield surrounding the planet.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë