compress
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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
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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
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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
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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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