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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decompress .
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Examples
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I am sure there will be more as my brain decompresses and I actually get sleep.
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You can consider your algorithm as a compression technique, and each number 'decompresses' as a work of art.
Max Barry 2009
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And then they get hit by a meteor pebble and the gym decompresses.
Thoughts on Marion Zimmer Bradley's Survey Ship julieandrews 2009
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Ms. MacKenzie decompresses with her blog, The Hubby Diaries, and sees humor in the arguments they sometimes have.
Putting the Honey Back in 'Honey, I'm Home' Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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The after-work crowd decompresses aided by a choice of more than 30 wines by the glass.
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When an 3 meg Mp3 decompresses to a 40 meg Wav file, is that really an increase of information?????
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Removing the stone and sand and gravel category in Figure 2 decompresses the weight scale for all the other materials categories.
Materials and economic growth USGS 2009
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When an 3 meg Mp3 decompresses to a 40 meg Wav file, is that really an increase of information?????
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The question now is how gracefully (or not) the economy decompresses.
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In the case of all three scores, being able to hear them in stereo for the first time decompresses them greatly, giving one a better appreciation for their instrumentation and their qualities as stand-alone music.
In-A-Bava-Da-Vida 2006
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