compress
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Egan-Jones addressed effects on venture capital, pointing out that startups can reach scale faster with less money, so those firms will ultimately lose leverage and see returns compress.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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
“Potential regulatory tightening on highly speculative or high-velocity products, particularly weekly index options, could disproportionately compress top-line growth given the high concentration of transaction charges in the revenue mix,” Emkay Research analysts wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
She needed a blanket, a compress, a sedative tablet.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
"J1007+3540 is one of the clearest and most spectacular examples of episodic AGN with jet-cluster interaction, where the surrounding hot gas bends, compresses, and distorts the jets," Dr. Pal explained.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 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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“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 at that impact region, there must be very high temperature that melted and compressed the stone beneath it," he says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Love it or not, they are increasingly the preferred medium, and tennis in the U.S. is a small sport with tons of competition and a compressed window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
I have highly developed, like, cooling-off mechanisms and am perhaps even more comfortable being compressed, than not.’
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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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
This weather pattern results in air sinking downwards, compressing and heating up as it hits the ground.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Higher costs are eroding household purchasing power and compressing business margins, while heightened uncertainty is dampening business confidence and investment,” the UN said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
They have rarely had to contend with those signals arriving in seconds, compressing the space between diplomatic gesture and market consequence to near zero.
From Barron's ● Apr. 18, 2026
It worked by compressing air into a container with a bellows and using the compressed air to power a dart or pellet.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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