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Recent Examples of compact
Adjective
The company has been developing technology to deliver real immersive 3D sound from compact devices by using the power of AI. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025 Against both Los Angeles and St. Louis, the first-year club showed mastery of passing and receiving, of maintaining a compact shape, and of advancing its back line much farther upfield than is typical. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
The bills filed by Texas lawmakers would allow the state to join compacts for workers in cosmetology, counseling and dentistry. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 It’s supposed to take on super compacts like the MINI Cooper and Mercedes-Benz smart cars. New Atlas, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
When planting roses, always attempt to avoid stepping in rose beds to avoid compacting the soil and the transfer of oxygen to the roots. Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025 Led by a performance of transfixing grace and subtlety from Ben Whishaw in the title role, the diaristic film spins compacted time into something free-flowing, expansive, illuminating and emotionally resonant, all of it achieved with elegant restraint. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for compact
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compact
Adjective
  • Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Whether those numbers are an overstatement, or possibly an understatement, is hard to say.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Over the decades, dust has blown the contaminated soil off the bases and abundant rains have pushed the dioxin into waterways and the densely packed surrounding neighborhoods, contaminating fish as well as ducks and chicken that people raise for food.
    Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The eight available stakes add 23 g (0.8 oz), and the stuff sack adds another 13 g (0.5 oz), pushing total packed weight for all those components just over 2.2 lb (1 kg), not including the multipurpose hiking poles.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This Side of the Island is a more concise and conceptual effort, compared to his last full-length, 2020’s The Loves of Your Life, which is a masterpiece of musical storytelling.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Keeping prices down Bartell, who is the president of Bartell Hotels and the chairman of the San Diego Tourism Marketing District, attributes the extended success of Humphreys to a concise plan.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That same year, facing intimidation by land-hungry settlers, the Shawnee signed another treaty ceding most of their Kansas reservation to the government, leaving the area around the mission to the Methodist church.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Some politicians have floated establishing a post-independence defense treaty with Denmark, Canada, or even the United States, which already has a military base in the Arctic Circle in far northwest Greenland.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The latest is an agreement with Iraq to rehabilitate the Kirkuk oilfield.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Trump's record number of executive orders are testing the limits of presidential power Marc Elias, who left Perkins Coie to start his own firm in 2021, brokered an agreement with the research and intelligence firm Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump leading up to the 2016 election.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Currently Hugo Boss is consolidating New York personnel into its Mexico operation, which will then provide back office functions for the whole of the Americas region, Mueller said.
    Cathrin Schaer, WWD, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The plan included consolidating underperforming retail locations and workforce reductions.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • It's considered lossless to the eye, but the signal is actually compressed at a 3:1 ratio.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The Liberal leadership race was compressed, and Carney was far ahead all along, so his opponents were not motivated to challenge him too much.
    Stephen Maher, TIME, 9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, in a game that featured an abundance of high-level basketball, even a solid game from Brown might have been enough.
    Jay King, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This sign is crafted from solid wood and has a burlap string and bow, along with a rainbow marshmallow peep design.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Compact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compact. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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