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He said: "Once you're a police officer, you're always a police officer, so even after you retire, particularly in Cleveland, it's such a small, compact force, everyone knows everyone else."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Researchers believe future versions could become significantly smaller and more energy efficient, potentially compact enough to fit inside a shoebox.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

These tools are compact, making them easy to store and keep in your vehicle.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

However, he also said that the compact is woefully out of date and should be scrapped and rewritten to match the reality of the shrinking river.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

All seven miniature versions of him dropped what they were holding and raced to the compact.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Under such compacts, the U.S. partners are technically sovereign nations that rely on U.S. financial support and defense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

“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

Chida was the chief architect of five-year compacts with the University of California and California State University, pledging financial stability in exchange for gains in graduation rates, access and affordability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

In it, Jule found Imogen’s passport, plus a surprising number of tubes and compacts, all disorganized.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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

With the field compacted after the red flag that followed the second of two crashes at Antony Noghes, he served the penalty two laps after the restart and that dropped him out of the points.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The researchers also found that synthetic condensates closely resemble compacted chromatin found in cells.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

His lower half was magically compacted into the wheelchair, his upper half dressed in a coat and tie.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

A digger methodically spread it out, compacting it as it worked.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

“We have to be strategic with what we do with this recharge. Where subsidence is causing the most harm, we’ve got to try and get it to those compacting aquifers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 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