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A key benefit of the design is that it does not require energy to compress air before combustion begins.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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

Add the growth variable to the mix, however, “and believe it or not, these peers have seen their post-2020 multiples compress by even more.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Eventually, all these materials wind up at one of four baling machines that compress them into giant blocks, which then get moved around the facility’s storage area by crew-operated forklifts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Several seconds pass with him holding the bottle to his face like a compress, his eyes still closed, the sun streaming down on him like he’s being chosen.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

"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

Here, the Pacific Flyway compresses into a living mosaic of wings, water and soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

TurboQuant compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory storing mid-conversation computations.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 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

“A shorter timeline would be artificially compressed and risks depriving this Court of a full record on which to decide this $110 billion case.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

It becomes a little compressed, a little messier and somehow more itself.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rising rates and this depressed investor sentiment have compressed the price-to-book ratio to 1.7 times.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

“As tensions flare again in the Strait of Hormuz, that room is now smaller and shrinking further as spare capacity has been deployed, demand has compressed, and inventories have been drawn down.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

A ramjet External link uses an aircraft’s speed to “ram” air into the engine, compressing it in the process.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

The retooled seat layouts are compressing the standard economy section and giving airlines a tiered system for collecting revenue that can adapt to different consumer behaviors, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Increased supply risks are cutting into pricing power and compressing the company’s sky-high margins.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026

He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr