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If the ratio of workers to pensioners continues to compress, the tax base required to fund rising healthcare and pension costs becomes increasingly strained.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Why this is notable: Such a development could compress years of progress into months or less and outpace humans’ ability to understand it, the authors said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“You have to learn how to take the big ideas and stories and compress that into a bite,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

During these encounters, enormous interstellar "cold clouds" may have pressed against the heliosphere with enough force to dramatically compress it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

"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

We can trace it clearly through Newton’s notebooks, even if he compresses it in his first publication.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Keurig is rolling out a line of single-serve coffee rounds made of compressed grounds encased in a seaweed-based coating.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Expect compressed margins in professional services, lower returns to venture capital and short-term pressure on home prices as screen-based jobs are disrupted,” the firm predicted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Another source said the process "should" be resolved by the end of the season, and they hoped any appeal would be "compressed".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"And if they both went off together, then you've got potentially San Francisco. Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The viselike pressure of countless tons of water above compressed me from every direction, and my lungs were full of agonizing fire.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

She developed pleural effusion — fluid between the lungs and ribs — compressing her lungs and making it hard for her to breathe.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Winds can force floes farther north and push them into other ice, compressing the overall area covered by sea ice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It may pay more, compressing its margins, but it risks less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Supernova explosions of massive early stars produced successive overlapping shock waves in the adjacent gas, compressing the intergalactic medium and accelerating the generation of clusters of galaxies.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan