flatten
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Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
AI threatens to flatten India’s information-technology industry, one of the few reliable creators of middle-class jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
There was less than an inch between the floor and the bottom of the cabinet, so that she could not walk properly but had to flatten herself out and crawl.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
The shape of the yield curve is a major driver – when it flattens, it tends to indicate 10-year yields will drop.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
His voice flattens, his words become stripped back.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
She groans, flattens her hand against her stomach.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Around 2010, however, that long-running trend unexpectedly flattened.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Disruption from AI and geopolitical tensions flattened the market after Monday’s sharp tech-fueled rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The yield curve has flattened out over roughly the past seven months as traders on Wall Street pushed the policy-sensitive 2-year Treasury yield dramatically higher.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He flattened his back to the oak pew, so I could climb over him, and I hustled down the aisle to the back of the church.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
This flattening is a problem for market values of mortgage-backed securities because it pushes down expectations for long-term interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Since then, the yield curve has been flattening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Treating scientific opinion as simply “for” or “against” risks flattening these important distinctions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
To some, it may feel like Araki is flattening complex social mores and misunderstanding the anxieties behind this era of semi-celibacy.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
When you start to think of the world as flat, or at least in the process of flattening, a lot of things make sense in ways they did not before.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
