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Compresses in sentence

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And then you have some pistons driven by pressure that goes on the outside, and this compresses the liquid metal around the plasma, and it compresses it, it gets hotter, like a laser, and then it makes fusion.
So we accelerate the pistons with steam, that takes a little bit of time, but then, bang! you hit the piston, and, baff!, all the energy is done instantly, down instantly to the liquid, and that compresses the plasma much faster.
So it's going to be a big machine, about three meters in diameter, liquid lead spinning around, big vortex in the center, put the plasma on the top and on the bottom, piston hits on the side, bang!, it compresses it, and it will make some energy, and the neutron will come out in the liquid metal, going to go in a steam engine and make the turbine, and some of the steam will go back to fire the piston.
The very act of sitting squashes, pressurizes and compresses, and these more delicate tissues really feel the brunt.
The enormous gravitational pressure of so much material compresses and triggers nuclear fusion in the star's core.
As the wave passes by, it stretches space and everything in it in one direction, and compresses it in the other.
So, we've had very solid evidence showing that that saddle-shaped structure actually compresses and extends, and does, in fact, function as a spring.
Like price in economics, a single electoral choice compresses a lot of information.
CCS technology captures carbon dioxide at the source of its emission, compresses it, and stores it permanently underground.
"Now then, if water isn't absolutely incompressible, at least it compresses very little.
He gave up all his patients; he no longer went to bed; he was constantly feeling her pulse, putting on sinapisms and cold-water compresses.
To complete the exact inventory of all our travelling accompaniments, I must not forget a pocket medicine chest, containing blunt scissors, splints for broken limbs, a piece of tape of unbleached linen, bandages and compresses, lint, a lancet for bleeding, all dreadful articles to take with one.
I have bandaged your head with compresses which must not be disturbed.
Compresses of linen were applied to poor Herbert's two wounds, and were kept constantly wet with cold water.
Herbert's wounds, covered with compresses and lint, were pressed neither too much nor too little, so as to cause their cicatrization without effecting any inflammatory reaction.