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
"Water voles have got scent glands on their feet and they will stamp down on the poo and they'll flatten it around and that is them scent marking their territory."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
Rosie’s ears flatten against her head, and I lean forward, looking more closely.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
"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
Peeta unties the cord and flattens out the circle of silk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
When Thoreau spews nonsense, such as men, “like the earth, revolve mainly from west to east, and so are flattened at the poles,” let’s call the silliness by its real name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
From the air, neighborhoods in Cali appeared flattened, with piles of grey rubble replacing entire blocks of homes and apartment buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 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
In “Neon Demon,” he shot Elle Fanning like a million bucks, but gave her the personality of a flattened penny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Charlie pulls out a totally flattened hat, and his shoulders sag a little.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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
DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty on Friday after tournament officials ruled he had improved the area of his backswing by flattening down some long grass on Royal Birkdale's fifth hole.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
In May, the company started laying off 8,000 workers, flattening teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
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
