flatten
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Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Einstein's theory, meanwhile, treats gravity as a property of space and time itself -- it can bend, flatten, and support waves that travel through it, as gravitational wave detectors have confirmed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
AI threatens to flatten India’s information-technology industry, one of the few reliable creators of middle-class jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Its crimson eyes almost glow with hunger and its pupils flatten in anger.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
A hot-strip mill flattens thick slabs of heated steel into long, thin ribbons of sheet steel that are wound into coils and shipped to customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Like VIX, it is not as bullish as it could be: The term structure of the VIX futures rises in the front end of the curve but then flattens out.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 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
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
She takes a piece of crumpled paper from her pocket and flattens it against her left palm.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Around 2010, however, that long-running trend unexpectedly flattened.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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
But the Arab oil embargo that fall flattened the housing market, and Remax’s backers pulled out, leaving the fledgling firm, at its lowest point, more than $600,000 in debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Under the sole of his shoe, he felt the crunch-squish of a flattened M&M.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
At first, the flattening yield curve appeared to be contributing to the sector’s weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Bond markets stabilize with curves flattening amid lower long-end yields,” the rates strategist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Treating scientific opinion as simply “for” or “against” risks flattening these important distinctions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
To some, it may feel like Araki is flattening complex social mores and misunderstanding the anxieties behind this era of semi-celibacy.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
While economics and the flattening of the world have pushed Reuters down this path, Glocer has tried to make a virtue of necessity.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
