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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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At his July press conference, Warsh acknowledged public frustration with price pressures while tempering expectations that the central bank could compress the timeline by which inflation would fall to its 2% goal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

However, the company has seen its stock valuation compress in recent months.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Next he began binding the compress in place with a roll of gauze.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

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

"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

TurboQuant compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory storing mid-conversation computations.

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

We can trace it clearly through Newton’s notebooks, even if he compresses it in his first publication.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Love it or not, they are increasingly the preferred medium, and tennis in the U.S. is a small sport with tons of competition and a compressed window.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

He noted that the nation's "intensely compressed" industrialisation happened in just a few decades, while it took centuries in many Western countries.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 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

Because the oxygen systems we were using delivered a lean mix of compressed gas and ambient air, 29,000 feet with gas felt like approximately 26,000 feet without gas.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Winds can force floes farther north and push them into other ice, compressing the overall area covered by sea ice.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

It may pay more, compressing its margins, but it risks less.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.

From BBC Jul. 16, 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

He looked at me fixedly, compressing his well-cut lips while he did so.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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