is compressing
- present progressive of compress (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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This is compressing cost structures, lowering wage costs and boosting earnings growth, especially among small caps, driving margin expansion.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
If a fracture isn’t the problem but a misaligned disk is compressing nearby nerves, surgeons may perform a laminectomy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
An unseen companion star in this image is compressing those winds to form dust.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2022
The words Belle’s quoting in the video do appear in Out of Darkness, but she is compressing an entire scene into a string of buzzwords.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2021
Nature likes to be helped in that way,—likes to have the water agitated when she is freezing it or heating it, and the clouds smitten when she is compressing them into rain.
From Locusts and Wild Honey by Burroughs, John
