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“Frederic Church: Global Artist,” the compact but impressive exhibit now on view in the pristine galleries nestled within Olana, the magnificent home he created in Hudson, N.Y., affirms that assessment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

He said: "Once you're a police officer, you're always a police officer, so even after you retire, particularly in Cleveland, it's such a small, compact force, everyone knows everyone else."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

To leave one captured star on the short orbit observed in rpTDEs, the original binary system would have to be extremely compact.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

These tools are compact, making them easy to store and keep in your vehicle.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

She opened her compact again and took another quick glance into the mirror.

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

“We would all benefit together by figuring out the community compacts required to enable sustainable development across the country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Multiple states have gone to court to argue prediction markets are nothing more than unlicensed gambling sites that operate in violation of state law and tribal compacts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

By design, the details of how "freedom cities" would be established are laden with legalese like "federal enclaves with special economic and jurisdictional zones" or "interstate compacts."

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025

For years, American drivers have been gravitating toward sport utility vehicles and away from sedans, compacts and hatchbacks.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

She had a makeup table laden with perfume bottles and face powder compacts and various ointments in tiny pots, which given my mother’s modest practicality seemed as exotic as jewels to me.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Even the design of farm machinery was considered — and tractors were fitted with wider tires to ensure that soil was less compacted when driven over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

He said trampling not only caused the flowers to break but also meant the ground underneath the plants becomes compacted so new plants could not grow.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

The fibers are then compacted even more tightly to fit inside the nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025

These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

A lump of compacted clay sped like a cannon directly at the spot where Butler’s head had been barely a second previously.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

“We have to be strategic with what we do with this recharge. Where subsidence is causing the most harm, we’ve got to try and get it to those compacting aquifers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

He has defended himself by saying his focus was on "social compacting", or building consensus.

From BBC ● May 31, 2024

And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024

Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2023

After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez