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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

As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Both Eisenman and Turner recommend cooling your body temperature with cold compresses or cool showers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 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

"J1007+3540 is one of the clearest and most spectacular examples of episodic AGN with jet-cluster interaction, where the surrounding hot gas bends, compresses, and distorts the jets," Dr. Pal explained.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

My chest compresses into a tiny, pulsing ball.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The researchers also used Raman spectroscopy, a laser-based method that shows how atoms are being stretched or compressed.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Rising rates and this depressed investor sentiment have compressed the price-to-book ratio to 1.7 times.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

But this is unlikely to be a mere coincidence; more likely, the shock wave produced by the supernova compressed interstellar gas and dust and triggered the condensation of the solar system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

While the force between individual atoms is weak, it becomes remarkably strong across the large surface area of two dimensional materials, pulling the sheets together and compressing the water trapped between them.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

AI is disproportionately compressing the bottom layer of white-collar production: drafting, summarizing, coding, documentation, reporting and routine analytical work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The drop is compressing the core of bitcoin’s business model: Mining, an energy-intensive process, only works when prices stay above costs.

From MarketWatch Apr. 9, 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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