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distillation

[dis-tl-ey-shuhn] / ˌdɪs tlˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distillate
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The government appealed, claiming the ban is needed to enforce spirits taxation, since home distillation is easy to conceal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Rival U.S. firms are sharing information to detect so-called adversarial distillation attempts that violate their terms of service.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Anthropic isn’t the only frontier lab documenting distillation attacks.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

“It’s hard to say how much distillation matters for the Chinese AI models,” Chan said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

When I get home I work with Quang-ha on his biology- I give him a single-page document with a distillation of what he should know for his upcoming test.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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