distillation
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Add it all together, and you’re left with perhaps the most fascinating and confounding player in the sport—the perfect distillation of everything that is beautiful and terribly wrong with the modern game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The memo did not detail any specific plans for action against foreign entities found to be undertaking distillation of US AI technology.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
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
The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing distillation
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Chemistry - High School
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