decompress
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He can look frantic in his technical area during games, but has an impressive ability to decompress immediately and speak to the players calmly by the time he has returned to the dressing room.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
That freedom helps them decompress, build resilience, and develop healthy habits for life.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I got to a point where I needed to decompress a little bit.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
"I want the outer door locked in the fully open position with the mechanical stopper in place to keep it from being trashed by the decompress."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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"Once you take a piece away, the tissue decompresses like a flat tire," Purmessur Walter said.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
As Pedro decompresses on the golf course, they zip around the country club in their golf carts as a few bewildered seniors look on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
In the offseason, Rodgers decompresses with non-football activities, such as the darkness retreat in Oregon he used to do some self-reflection - and ultimately led him to the Jets.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
In the offseason, Rodgers decompresses with non-football activities, such as the darkness retreat in Oregon he used to do some self-reflection — and ultimately led him to the Jets.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Manning’s memoir decompresses the false equivalences that have been required of her and reconstructs the epiphanies that cemented her political convictions.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
A heat pump basically runs a chemical - the refrigerant - round and round in a closed loop, going from hot to cold, gas to liquid, compressed to decompressed.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
When it was over, he decompressed by watching co-star Richard Jenkins, who plays his father, play father to another impossible son in the Will Ferrell comedy “Step Brothers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
“I feel good about getting a couple of days away from the rink to get sort of decompressed and then start gearing things up a little bit,” Bednar said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
It was “the place where I decompressed, and thought through all the problems,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
It was a holiday weekend, and she decompressed by steering a paddleboard out to sea.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018
The extensively engineered retaining wall and thoughtful landscaping transformed the property into a series of expansive outdoor living spaces designed for entertaining, decompressing, and fully embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
In late 1981, Bruce Springsteen was living in a rented house in Colts Neck, N.J., decompressing from a grueling world tour following the release of his 1980 album, “The River.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
On Friday, part of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 fuselage blew out at 16,000 feet on an Alaska Airlines flight out of Portland, leaving a large hole and decompressing the passenger cabin.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
“Right now we’re decompressing but in a few days we’ll be focusing on that goal for sure,” she said after receiving a hug from Clark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
As a result, the front electrode Page 69 approaches and recedes from the rear electrode, thus compressing and decompressing the mass of granular carbon between them.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Kempster Miller
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