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A report last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies described India’s effort as an attempt “to compress decades of ecosystem development into just a few years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

By carefully changing the separation between these electrodes, the team could stretch or compress the molecular screw.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 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

Several seconds pass with him holding the bottle to his face like a compress, his eyes still closed, the sun streaming down on him like he’s being chosen.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

This capability compresses the timeline between discovery and exploitation, placing immense pressure on organizations to fix vulnerabilities before attackers act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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 wrapped her wrists with beaded bracelets, gave her castor-oil enemas, packed hot cactus compresses on her brow.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

As snow accumulates and gradually becomes compressed into ice, it can preserve chemical clues about the atmosphere and environmental conditions at the time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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 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

It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The daughters march behind her, four girls compressed in bodies as tight as bowstrings, each one tensed to fire off a woman’s heart on a different path to glory or damnation.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

She developed pleural effusion — fluid between the lungs and ribs — compressing her lungs and making it hard for her to breathe.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

In épée, you score a point by compressing the tip of the blade of the sword anywhere on your opponent’s body, from the head to the toes.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad