distill
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Scientists then distill that blood into antivenom for humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The oil giant paid the smaller company $320 million over a decade to tinker with the genetic makeup of algae to try to distill enough oil to make the venture technically viable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Like “The Pitt,” “St. Denis Medical” and “Scrubs” distill the unique relationships between doctors, nurses and patients.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
“One, it’s a great way to distill everything that’s happening in the world, because the ribeye doesn’t lie,” said Lewis.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Few artists have had their motives and credibility questioned like Lana Del Rey and on A&W, she distils a life's worth of negativity into a sweeping, wayward seven-minute epic.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
The report, culminating a two-year evaluation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement goals, distils thousands of submissions from experts, governments and campaigners.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023
Sullivan says that the result he is proudest of is one he obtained in 1977, which distils the crucial properties of a space using a tool called rational homotopy.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2022
Ram developed a tool called Holepunch for projects that use the statistical programming language R. Holepunch distils the process of setting up Binder into four simple commands.
From Nature ● Nov. 4, 2019
Well, there may be a poison that distils itself out of good things; in an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Last week, an Anthropic executive said the U.S. lead over Chinese companies could have been a year to 18 months if they hadn’t distilled American models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Under U.S. law, bourbon must be distilled from a mix of grains containing at least 51% corn, and aged in new, charred barrels of oak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Mezcal is a distilled drink made from agave, the same plant group used to produce tequila.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
It sounded like a chant, the way it was distilled, the way it stripped all the mess of the outside down to the bone of the problem.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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Laird & Co. was launched with a facility in Colts Neck, N.J., distilling applejack made from orchards in Monmouth County.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
John D. Rockefeller was 24 in 1863 when he invested in the emerging new technology of distilling crude into kerosene.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
Through a process called "distilling", such firms are essentially copying AI technology developed by US companies, he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
It makes you think you’ve always felt like this, and there’s no place to go but down, where it slowly, ravenously digests your will, distilling it into the ebony crude of nightmares.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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