compactly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“By Athena . . . you’ve put all life compactly in one line.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
The researchers suggest that quantum computers are particularly well suited to modeling these systems because they can compactly represent their underlying physics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026
The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Diltz is compactly built, with a gray ponytail, a ringer in old age for the actor Seymour Cassel, a John Cassavetes mainstay.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
They were bloodstained and compactly folded and packed in the baskets.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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