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  • adverb In a compressive way.

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compressive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Drug companies would have to price their products compressively if we had to pay to full price for those prescribed by our private physicians whose fees would also have to be competitive – ditto hospitals and other medical facilities.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010

  • Drug companies would have to price their products compressively if we had to pay to full price for those prescribed by our private physicians whose fees would also have to be competitive – ditto hospitals and other medical facilities.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010

  • It was rigorous, too frugal, compressively secluded, everyway unscientific: yet in that very strictness and domestic solitude might there not lie the root of deeper earnestness, of the stem from which all noble fruit must grow?

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Xie D and Biggers, Jr. SB, Delamination growth and residual strength of compressively loaded sandwich panels with stiffness tailored face sheets,

    iMechanica - Comments James L 2009

  • Xie D and Biggers, Jr. SB, Delamination growth and residual strength of compressively loaded sandwich panels with stiffness tailored face sheets,

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • Taken as a global whole, with similar topographically driven compressively dominated zones for example, the high plains just to the East of the Rockies, such places account for the lion’s share of the blue areas at any given time.

    Water Vapor Feedback « Climate Audit 2007

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