compress
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That caused valuations to compress, even as share prices largely continued moving higher.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
When illuminated, the muscle tissue contracted in different directions, causing the disk to stretch and compress.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Watters wanted to compress El-Sayed into a caricature, a radical leftist Muslim candidate who could be made alien and threatening to the people watching at home.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
He puts a compress bandage directly over the wound and pulls Phineas's nightcap down tightly over it.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Far below Europa's bitterly cold exterior, a global ocean may remain liquid because Jupiter's immense gravitational pull repeatedly stretches and compresses the moon.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
“It is agentic-first, it compresses timelines from months to days and it is designed so customers are self-sufficient when a deployment ends,” Amazon said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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
Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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
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But Ms. Proulx’s stories read like full novels that have been radically compressed into 20 or 30 pages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In recent years, the country has also encouraged the use of compressed natural gas to power vehicles, with natural gas plants and filling stations set up mostly in the largest city, Dar es Salaam.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The greater decrease in nerve size suggested that hydrodissection was more effective at reducing swelling around the compressed nerve.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The emphasis is on the speed of the take-up because the industry is moving so fast, development cycles are being compressed all the time and some models are now obsolete within six months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
This was much different than fencing épée, where the tip of the blade had to be compressed on the target to score.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“As U.S. diesel stocks near storage limits, downward pressure on diesel prices would intensify, compressing U.S. refining margins, and likely incentivize U.S. refiners to reduce output,” the team wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The “relentless supply of new workers” is compressing wages across professions, said Saurabh Mukherjea, founder of Mumbai-based Marcellus Investment Managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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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