flatten
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"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
The idea was to stack them up, allowing each to account for a portion of the reductions needed to flatten the surging rate of global emissions.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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
Long-end Treasury yields declined more than short-end yields, causing the curve to flatten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Her eyes narrow and her enormous ears flatten against her head.
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
Sometimes it flattens the experience into palatable passive consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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
In the area around Otsuchi, the land alongside those rias flattens out for miles, making it ideal for farming.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Authorities reported nearly 2,600 deaths as of Thursday from the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck the country last week, most in coastal town of La Guaira, where scores of residential complexes were flattened.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Survivors were mourning while battling shortages of food and shelter, but searches of the scores of flattened apartment buildings have carried on and saved lives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"We get very excited by flattened poo," is a sentence I was not expecting.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Some people have lambasted servicemembers for taking selfies outside flattened buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
So he gripped the ridge of the scales and flattened himself against the dragon’s back, and with great gusts of wind buffeting at his ears, they rose together.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
On June 24, the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes hit Caracas and the coastal state of La Guaira, flattening entire high-rise apartment blocks into layers of rubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
At this stage, the flattening appears to reflect a market that believes policy is not restrictive enough to bring inflation back to target, rather than a market focused primarily on slowing growth.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
In the Permian, for example, the company’s top priority is collecting cash after flattening production last year at about 1 million barrels a day, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The yogurt pulls it together without flattening it.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 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
