compress
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Entry-level workers, on the other hand, may benefit: AI can compress the learning curve, allowing less-experienced people to perform at higher levels sooner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
But the history of infrastructure build-outs suggests the line between technology companies and the physical infrastructure they depend on tends to compress over time.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
“Supersonic travel will compress the world in a way we haven’t seen since the Jet Age,” says NYU’s Karaburun.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
This provided direct evidence of costal aspiration breathing, where muscles between the ribs expand and compress the chest cavity to pull air into the lungs.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
As the glacier moved, crevasses would sometimes compress, buckling ladders like toothpicks; other times a crevasse might expand, leaving a ladder dangling in the air, only tenuously supported, with neither end mounted on solid ice.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing compress
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