compressing

Example Sentences

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Compressing the gas increases the temperature, and this heat is passed round the home.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Compressing it causes pain or numbness while sitting or driving.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

Compressing five eight-hour days into four days of 10-hour shifts, as Belgium is doing, may not help with stress, even if it results in a three-day weekend.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

Compressing the timeline allowed him to explore thematic threads in this story, so be it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond