compact
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However, he also said that the compact is woefully out of date and should be scrapped and rewritten to match the reality of the shrinking river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
At its center is a compact red source that closely resembles a little red dot and even evokes the ruby red fruit of the desert cactus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Northern sled dogs became compact and heavily coated for cold conditions, while hunting dogs near the equator tended to be leaner and better suited to heat.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
She highlights Kia’s Telluride and Seltos sport utility vehicles, along with its compact EV2 electric vehicle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the next locker over, a girl with frizzy brown curls applied lipstick behind a small gold compact.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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“We would all benefit together by figuring out the community compacts required to enable sustainable development across the country,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
By design, the details of how "freedom cities" would be established are laden with legalese like "federal enclaves with special economic and jurisdictional zones" or "interstate compacts."
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
“The social compacts that the people have sown in them are very ingrained.”
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
For years, American drivers have been gravitating toward sport utility vehicles and away from sedans, compacts and hatchbacks.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
In it, Jule found Imogen’s passport, plus a surprising number of tubes and compacts, all disorganized.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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Even the design of farm machinery was considered — and tractors were fitted with wider tires to ensure that soil was less compacted when driven over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Firn is partially compacted granular snow found near the upper portions of glaciers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was always going to be difficult for the second period to match the high-octane tempo of the first, and instead the decisive moments, both mad and magnificent, were compacted into the final few minutes.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Matter was more densely compacted in these lumps than elsewhere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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A digger methodically spread it out, compacting it as it worked.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
However, there are also many disadvantages of compacting your lifestyle into a space not much bigger than a motel room.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023
After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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