flatten
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His advice to chief executives is to flatten organizations, eliminate “glue people” who perform routine tasks, and focus on inventors, salespeople and leaders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Gartner earlier projected that by the end of 2026, one in five organizations will use AI to flatten their structure, eliminating more than half of their current middle-management positions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
River can be a good thing, social media algorithms can flatten the context around the waterway, particularly when it comes to demographic changes in nearby neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She pounds the hamburger with the palm of her left hand to flatten it.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
If the U.S. yield curve flattens further, the ETF and the sector could fall, with the ETF potentially dropping to its next major support level at $53.25, which also coincides with the 200-day moving average.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Everyone flattens ideas into a tiny text box for AI, and Olive’s patented model training retains the prosody and turn-taking in a voice exchange to reveal uncompressed intent that a frontier model needs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sometimes it flattens the experience into palatable passive consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
But this approach effectively flattens the data - anything above 500 is treated the same on official monitors, even if the real concentration is far higher.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
Peeta unties the cord and flattens out the circle of silk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Footage shared online appeared to show one street being completely flattened by bulldozers.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Lam Research’s stock flattened out Friday, but it is down 16% this week after sharing a disappointing outlook that it blamed on supply-chain constraints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
The sun floated over the mountains, stained the blue sky red-orange, and flattened the lagoon until it looked like a mirror for the stars.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
The added scattering produced by these interactions is responsible for the characteristic flattening and eventual increase in electrical resistance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
“Bond markets stabilize with curves flattening amid lower long-end yields,” the rates strategist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
City plans call for flattening a downtown convention center, a crumbling church and several nearby buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I saw the panther’s eyes tracking us, the tiger’s ears flattening just a little.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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