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Delayed grandparenthood can compress the healthy years seniors spend actively involved in their grandchildren’s lives, including providing free child care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

Egan-Jones addressed effects on venture capital, pointing out that startups can reach scale faster with less money, so those firms will ultimately lose leverage and see returns compress.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“You have to learn how to take the big ideas and stories and compress that into a bite,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

More cold compresses were delivered, and a hot-water bottle, and a headache lozenge.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

A new study suggests that the treatment, which uses ultrasound to guide an injection of ordinary saline around a compressed nerve, provides longer-lasting benefits than traditional steroid injections, without the risks associated with steroids.

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

“These pricing plans reflect some improvements in demand as well as firms’ desire to recover margins compressed by earlier cost increases,” the survey said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Since the paper was quite small, I compressed my handwriting to get as many words on the page as I could—this was a big moment in our relationship.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

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 The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover