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A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 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

Still, the West End hasn’t been spared the squeeze as rising costs outpace inflation and compress profit margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

They also installed advanced sensors that can detect movement up to one-billionth of a meter by using fiber optic cables that can extend or compress if any ground deformation occurs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Next he began binding the compress in place with a roll of gauze.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

Because gas compresses when cooled, large LNG tankers can hold enough energy to power 70,000 homes for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Neighbors suggested their own remedies: arnica compresses, packed mud from a holy well, ground elephant tusk from the Niger to mix in her daily broth.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

"And at that impact region, there must be very high temperature that melted and compressed the stone beneath it," he says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Feulner was known more as an advocate than a scholar, and Heritage scholars generally wrote their own material, which I sometimes compressed to op-ed length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Valuations of tech stocks have compressed significantly in recent months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Rubio and Zeta-4 are already chewing what looks like a compressed prune square and drinking from their cups.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

It may well be that “High Value Target” is compressing its timeline and massaging Nixon’s contributions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien