distill
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Like any good pastor, he knows how to distill that discontent into soundbites and stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
For the predictions to be accurate, or efficient, the platforms rely on a pool of traders to distill the wisdom of the crowd.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Like “The Pitt,” “St. Denis Medical” and “Scrubs” distill the unique relationships between doctors, nurses and patients.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Foreign labs that distill American models can then feed these unprotected capabilities into military, intelligence, and surveillance systems,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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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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
Being forced to use simple language distils her experiences down to the bare truths, adding to their starkness.
From BBC ● May 14, 2022
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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On Wednesday, White House science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios shared on X that the government had obtained information showing that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic’s Fable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Kratsios said on X that the US government has information that Moonshot AI "distilled" capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI for the development of its K3 model.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
As sunlight is absorbed, the water evaporates and is distilled into fresh water.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
For countless Northerners, Brooks’s assault on Sumner distilled the sense of entitlement held by the South’s ruling elite, who had dominated the national government since its founding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
He had distilled it at the age of sixteen, enabling him to work miracles, among them the highest aspiration of the ancient art: the transmutation of lead into gold.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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With the help of large handheld food mixers, they carefully grind the mixture of dried Californian grapes and water, which they then ferment before distilling it in a large still imported from Germany.
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
When the district court ruled two years ago on the 1868 law, the judge also said that the ban on home distilling couldn’t be saved by the Commerce Clause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
In Mr. Ferris’s physical science class we were distilling aspirins, very large aspirins, which by the time the last bell rang Mr. Ferris said he needed.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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