compress
verb (used with object)
to press together; force into less space.
have compressed
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present perfectof compress.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Rising rates and this depressed investor sentiment have compressed the price-to-book ratio to 1.7 times.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
That valuation represents a premium to software peers at a time when multiples have compressed.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Even though its operating margins have compressed lately below 20%, the company remains highly profitable with margins that look more like luxury stocks than apparel brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Piastri still leads the championship from Norris and Verstappen, but the gaps have compressed as the drivers head to Monaco this weekend.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
But, first, let us try whether we cannot get the forms of the other great architectures of the world broadly expressed by relations of the same lines into which we have compressed the Gothic.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
