compact
Example Sentences
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The 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia will take place in a more geographically compact area, but the country plans to build 11 new stadiums, whereas this year’s World Cup will only use existing ones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Gravitational pulls from planets slowly tug on the individual fragments in different ways, causing the once compact stream to spread out and eventually blend into the background dust filling the solar system.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
They created a compact optical amplifier, about the size of a fingertip, that can strengthen light signals while using very little energy and maintaining full bandwidth.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
The Portuguese likes a compact team, able to exploit the opposition.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
And when Mini angled the compact to reflect the portraits of screaming women, the paintings revealed something very different: skulls.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Vocabulary lists containing compact
com-, con-
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"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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