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Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

What Slack did was radically flatten hierarchies and roles and change who could put what on the agenda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

The shape of the yield curve is a major driver – when it flattens, it tends to indicate 10-year yields will drop.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

But funding a nongambler’s entrance into the gambling world as a kind of comedic protagonist not only puts the writer at risk but also flattens the seriousness of the story’s subject.

From Slate ● May 5, 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

As I reload, Brutus flattens on the ground, rolls the few feet to the water, and submerges.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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

On the third day, they climbed to a high point from which they could see the flattened area where his brother’s two-story residence building once stood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

With the sun breaking through and a drying wind, the wicket flattened out and batting seemed to be becoming easier than on day one.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

When it’s nearly time for Rosie’s act, I sneak into the big top and stand flattened against a section of seats.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The added scattering produced by these interactions is responsible for the characteristic flattening and eventual increase in electrical resistance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The driverless tractor with spiked steel wheels will run over a programmed course, flattening newly spread trash to create space to bury more garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Bond markets stabilize with curves flattening amid lower long-end yields,” the rates strategist says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

This flattening is a problem for market values of mortgage-backed securities because it pushes down expectations for long-term interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Professionally, the recognition that the world was flat was unnerving because I realized that this flattening had been taking place while I was sleeping, and I had missed it.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman