compressed
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The gases are rapidly cooled before being compressed and sent to the final stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
S&P 500’s forward multiple compressed 17%; earnings forecasts improved 3 percentage points, projecting a 19% collective advance.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
In the compressed world of a 988 call, in which both counselor and caller are strangers with little information to go on besides the words they exchange, the potential for miscommunication is high.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
The stock’s six-session slide comes as earnings expectations have climbed dramatically, which is why Micron’s price-to-earnings ratio has become so compressed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume, so the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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