condense
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As it loses energy, it can condense into long, narrow structures known as filaments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Thomas’s style of speaking, in fact, resembles poetry, with rapid juxtapositions of images and a tendency to condense memories from different time periods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Teams would think, if you can condense play in their areas, you can control them - and if it goes over to another part of the pitch, you can cope with it.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
"It can't create rain where there is no moisture in the air, but it just 'forces' some of the water to condense in one location rather than another," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
“It’s only frost-free if you leave it closed. If you leave it ajar, water will eventually condense and freeze against the walls. Then you can scrape it off and melt it.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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As the air rises, it cools and the water vapour condenses into a cloud.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Management sees a broader market” once the company condenses its bulky, rack-mounted systems into smaller chips in a few years, he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Ms. Bohman condenses decades into this brief, potent book, jumping from Hanna’s disoriented youth to her success as a painter of dark mountain scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
They found that this process occurs through phase separation, a phenomenon similar to oil droplets forming in water, and they believe it reflects how chromatin condenses inside living cells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
In front of me, the sheet of red light collects and condenses into an orb of golden Obayifo spirit.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The following excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
She later returned to play out a condensed set.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
"We want to be a place where there's a mixing of lots of perspectives, and this is us practicing what we preach -- a cosmologist working closely with a condensed matter theorist."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Winky sold the cans to Pepe’s Café, where they used them to serve cafĕ con leche—espresso and condensed milk.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Instead, like a still condensing sugar-saturated slop into a refined liquor, this downsizing concentrates the force of his images, shifting the mood from one of frivolity to seriousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The Ombudsman also found the commission "limited the possibility of its departments to provide meaningful input" by condensing internal consultations into "less than 24 hours over a weekend".
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
For Kelly Burton, a mental health nurse from Crewe, condensing her hours into a four-day week since July has given her “perfect work-life balance”.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
Elements that would form rocks on Earth melt and evaporate here, before condensing on the slightly cooler night side, creating clouds of iron that drip molten iron rain.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2024
A set of computer investigations has examined the evolution of a flat, condensing disk of gas and dust of the sort that is thought to lead to stars and planets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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