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compress

[kuhm-pres, kom-pres] / kəmˈprɛs, ˈkɒm prɛs /


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Researchers there used the powerful magnetic fields of the Z machine to shock compress tiny diamond samples.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

However, the company has seen its stock valuation compress in recent months.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“You can hear that these buildings carry the echoes of the lives they contained because of the frescoes, the mosaics, the furniture. You feel 2,000 years compress and collapse. It’s like magic.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Using AI to compress drug discovery from years to as little as nine months, it is developing products catering to the local market but that are more novel than what homegrown firms can offer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Far below Europa's bitterly cold exterior, a global ocean may remain liquid because Jupiter's immense gravitational pull repeatedly stretches and compresses the moon.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

In “The Shift,” she compresses the challenge of an entire profession into a single 12-hour shift on a hospital cancer ward.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

High pressure causes colder air to sink in the atmosphere, where it compresses, warms up and dries out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 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

Their happy chatter, cold compresses, spiritual counsel, and personal charm restored the bruised bodies and grieving souls of both mother and daughter.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Both numbers are Taalas’s own, and the cheaper one buys tokens from a compressed model.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Before Arendt became the great thinker of statelessness, bureaucracy had compressed her into these terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In this process, fine WC and Co powders are compressed under high pressure and heated in sintering machines.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

To someone standing on a platform watching it pass, the train would appear to be only eighty yards long and everything on it would be similarly compressed.

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

The “relentless supply of new workers” is compressing wages across professions, said Saurabh Mukherjea, founder of Mumbai-based Marcellus Investment Managers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 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

I cupped my palms around it, compressing the ice into a compact ball.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence




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