compacted

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Way-marked pistes are generally protected by pre-emptive avalanche blasting, and their snow is flattened and compacted to further reduce the risk.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

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

Fill and soil are compacted onto the slab and topped with several layers of asphalt.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

The soil was so compacted that each time they dug a planting hole, it took an hour to drain.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson