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weighed (upon)

verb

past tense of weigh (upon)

as in bore (down)

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compressed

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Development cycles that once took weeks are now compressed into days or even hours.

— Brian Contos, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

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