flatten
Example Sentences
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I flattened it out as best I could, pushing it down, tugging the sweater around my waist, but there was no real concealing it beneath the thin cotton dress.
From Literature
The flattening “is clearly an indication of the market’s more guarded outlook for Fed policy, and raises the concern of stagflation,” said Gary Schlossberg, a global strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute in San Francisco.
From MarketWatch
Moderate relief is in sight this weekend, when forecasters predict the powerful high pressure system will start to flatten out, bringing a gradual dip in temperatures.
From Los Angeles Times
With longer-dated Treasury yields falling faster than their short-end peers, the curve is flattening.
It was about the size of a small fist: brawn, furry and oddly flattened, probably by an ice-fall.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
