flatten
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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
A computer could then use the resulting scans to virtually flatten the tightly rolled sheets and expose the hidden writing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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
James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
She is trying to flatten a new poster to the wall.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
The challenge will be convincing investors to finance these huge projects as oil demand flattens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
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
Sometimes it flattens the experience into palatable passive consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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
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
Disruption from AI and geopolitical tensions flattened the market after Monday’s sharp tech-fueled rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I stomped and flattened the dirt with my foot.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Next up is a driverless Caterpillar compactor with spiked steel wheels that will run over a programmed course, flattening fresh layers of refuse to make way for additional waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
The quake caused widespread damage in the sweltering southwestern region, flattening homes, damaging bridges, triggering fires and leaving many without electricity and water.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Coraline had time to observe that the house itself was continuing to change, becoming less distinct and flattening out, even as she raced down the stairs.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
