compressed

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Where we do have a solution is with compressed natural gas, and that’s the one that we’re focused on right now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“His transfer came a few months earlier, not a few days earlier. The contours of the relationships between Stagg and Krick and the others are accurate, but they took place in a more compressed timeline.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Like squeezing a sponge, the descending motion dries the air out and when you add in the fact the air is compressed, this also adds to the air heating up.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

During those periods, bursts of charged particles from the Sun compressed Earth's magnetosphere, the invisible magnetic shield surrounding the planet.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Just then, for the first time since he had lain down, Zooey, with his eyes still shut, compressed his lips—very much, as a matter of parenthetical fact, in the habitual style of his mother.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger