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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

The ensuing screams were so loud they could flatten an entire city.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 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

Mr. Talty presents characters worthy of our interest, but he tends to flatten them into stock types.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

I flatten my back to the wall and wait.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

In the area around Otsuchi, the land alongside those rias flattens out for miles, making it ideal for farming.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

One of Europe's biggest onshore wind farms is to be flattened and rebuilt with fewer, taller turbines, its owner has announced.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In 1950, he oversaw the invasion of South Korea, starting a war that would end in a stalemate with the North flattened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

For the second time that night, he ran to the door and flung it open—and was instantly flattened by Radar, who pounced on his chest and started licking his face from top to bottom.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

However, the yield curve began rolling over in April 2025 and has been flattening again since year-end.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 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

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

He said company bosses were privately acknowledging to him that recruitment of young people is flattening because of the technology.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

The vanity held a collection of hair relaxers, skin bright- eners, oils, and flattening irons.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray