flatten
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The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
River can be a good thing, social media algorithms can flatten the context around the waterway, particularly when it comes to demographic changes in nearby neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Sharing a chatbot creates security vulnerabilities and can flatten the user experience by muddling personalization features, OpenAI warns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
Monday morning I’m up early to wash my face and flatten my hair with water and spit.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
"If you think about taking a bowl of pizza dough and setting it spinning above your head, it flattens out," she explained.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
But the cat just narrows his eyes, flattens his one ear, and hisses back at me.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
Water vole volunteers 'get very excited by flattened poo'
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
That night, a million hushed “sorry!’s” could be heard throughout the auditorium as hordes of alternatively inclined women — because there were mostly women — flattened themselves to move through their row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
His intentionally flattened stylings emphasize the shallow depth of these subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
We live saturated in opinion, reaction and digital noise, a culture that turns other people into content: flattened, accelerated, easy to dismiss.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Misha held an apple out in a flattened hand, and the horse munched it up.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Tuesday's tremor caused widespread damage on the island of Kyushu, flattening homes, damaging bridges, triggering fires and leaving tens of thousands of residents without power and water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The bond market is not going to take any of this lightly, either, and the clearest sign of this would be a continued flattening of the yield curve.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Critics of the change say this risks flattening meaningful distinctions between religious identities, particularly for service members whose beliefs do not fall neatly into major denominational groupings.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
A reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would likely lead to a steepening of sovereign curves, whereas a renewed escalation could trigger more flattening, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Just to summarize again: The Apple-PC-Windows flattening phase was about me interacting with my computer and me interacting with my own limited network inside my own company.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
