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His advice to chief executives is to flatten organizations, eliminate “glue people” who perform routine tasks, and focus on inventors, salespeople and leaders.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Gartner earlier projected that by the end of 2026, one in five organizations will use AI to flatten their structure, eliminating more than half of their current middle-management positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

My hands go straight to my hips, and I’m so about to let Stacy Chin have such a big piece of my mind, it’ll flatten her, when Julia gives my elbow a tug.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

A performance that forces all four into a single system flattens Wagner’s extraordinary range.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

If the U.S. yield curve flattens further, the ETF and the sector could fall, with the ETF potentially dropping to its next major support level at $53.25, which also coincides with the 200-day moving average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 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

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

Before I can say anything, William stands up, takes his hat off and flattens down his hair.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said about 2,000 residents had been displaced by the operation, which has led to at least one whole street appearing to have been flattened, according to footage shared online.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The cloud collapsed and flattened into a disk, eventually giving rise to the sun at its center and the planets that formed around it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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

It’s the austerity era, with flattened hierarchies and more work left to middle managers who remain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Coal flattened himself out as much as he could against the concrete wall and shimmied, legs first, behind the dumpster.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

One Instagram Reel shows a film crew capturing a giant wave flattening a model city with the caption, “No CGI. No compositing. Just a hand-built miniature Miami and a 40-foot wave tank.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

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

Treating scientific opinion as simply “for” or “against” risks flattening these important distinctions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

I grab my bag and rush to the door’s entrance, flattening my back against the wall.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera