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How to use the word compress in a Sentence?

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They're going to need to buy gas from somebody besides the Russians, which means we have to increase production, as do others, we need to compress the timeline by which we can approve pipelines, LNG( liquefied natural gas) export facilities, etc, so that we can actually get the gas to them as soon as possible.

Bill Cassidy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're verifying more than 1 % of the American adult population each quarter, and that's starting to compress more to like 45 or 50 days.

Blake Hall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've got to use the full power of the U.S. government and the private sector here to compress all of those (drug trial) timelines, reduce inefficiency in development and use the power of the U.S. government to produce at risk, scale hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines even while we're running the clinical trials to prove their safe and effective.

Alex Azar

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

China's drug control agencies, now and in the years to come, will place greater emphasis on drug control cooperation between China and the United States, but I believe that to resolve this the more important issue is for the United States to strive to reduce and compress the great demand and drug consumption markets of opioids.

Liu Yuejin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

But I believe that to resolve this the more important issue is for the United States to strive to reduce and compress the great demand and drug consumption markets of opioids.

Liu Yuejin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The technologies I see as having the biggest impact are those that compress the time needed to build trust.

Jamie Schwartz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They talked about binders – things that compress a girl’s chest to make it appear you don’t have what is there, and they talked about how students can make fake testicles by filling pantyhose with rice and sewing them into their panties.

The Family Leader observer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This will allow aerospace companies to compress their development cycles because we are making these prototype engines three or four times faster than normal.

Simon Marriott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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