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How to use the word compressed in a Sentence?

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We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are constructed to last, as the years go on and each time the tree gets shaped, it may' expand' a little. It should still be able to be compressed enough to get back into the box.

Steve Downs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the equivalent of doing phases one, two and three of a typical clinical trial but all compressed into the May through October time frame.

Kirsten Lyke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

John Roberts arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial quickly burst into a partisan fight Tuesday as proceedings began unfolding at the Capitol. Democrats objected strongly to rules proposed by the Republican leader for compressed arguments and a speedy trial. ( AP Photo/Cliff Owen) As powerful as our evidence is.

Zoe Lofgren

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We wanted the signature to be the same regardless of the codec the video is being compressed with, if I take my video and convert it from, say, MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, then that file will be of a totally different length, and the bits will have completely changed, which will produce a different hash. What we needed was a content-aware hashing algorithm.

John Collomosse

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Twelve months back we had a good degree of headroom, by November we had sufficient headroom, and the headroom has been compressed in the last six months.

Nick Read

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's certainly a compressed process with a high degree of urgency behind it.

Ann Flagg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We certainly did n’t go into the season thinking that we needed to make a tonal shift, even last year when ‘ Last Man ’ was canceled, we really looked for an opportunity to move it to our schedule and we just did n’t have the right show to pair it with. We did n’t have the right opportunity. It was a really compressed time when it was canceled at the very end in May. We were emboldened by the response we saw on ‘ Roseanne. ’ We saw it as an opportunity to pair those two shows together on Friday night.

Gary Newman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The unnecessarily compressed execution schedule using the risky drug midazolam denies prisoners their right to be free from the risk of torture.

John Williams

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The longer they’re packed, the more they are compressed and it takes a little while for those shapes to return.

Lisa Kauke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors needed to see some performance in the reverse Yankee paper this week before they start buying again, but unlike late last year where the US paper underperformed on softer conditions, investors are now more open-minded about reverse Yankee issuance as it's a chance to pick up yield in a market where spreads on European companies are being heavily compressed.

Alex Hayes-Griffin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My suspicion is that you are seeing institutions nibble at extremely compressed valuations, the bottom line is, if you are ending the session with a positive trend, that tends to give the impression that there are buyers out there.

Peter Kenny

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors' attitudes seem to be worsening relative to the likelihood of a global recession. I think that's what financials are reflecting – that their net interest margins are going to be further compressed under collapsing bond yields.

Mark Luschini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the US, you've had this sort of wellness and health scene for years now with Whole Foods and the yoga movement, paleo and crossfit, in Hong Kong for instance, all of that 10 years is compressed into one and a half years. It's just been an astronomical shift here. Anywhere that you have a concentration of Type-A, highly educated, very well traveled people you get this focus on self-improvement.

Sonalie Figueiras

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Being able to take the time, to get to know founders, to evaluate companies, to do due diligence – these things are harder in compressed time frame markets like the one we are in now, a deflation, of valuations and market conditions, would ease that pressure.

Ben Narasin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Originally I used a can of compressed air to clean mushrooms that we had harvested. They were sandy and I needed a way to clean them out, so then I was thinking of other ways to use compressed air in the kitchen.

John Cox

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In our paper, we have shown that a super Carrington-type CME event would have greatly compressed the magnetic field, this would ignite huge electric currents on Earth and let energetic particles penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere and surface.

Vladimir Airapetian

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This morning we were able to send compressed air for them to breathe, but this afternoon there's no compressed air anymore because all the tubes were blocked.

Dang Quang Dat

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Remy de Gourmont

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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