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flatten

[flat-n] / ˈflæt n /


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His advice to chief executives is to flatten organizations, eliminate “glue people” who perform routine tasks, and focus on inventors, salespeople and leaders.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Gartner earlier projected that by the end of 2026, one in five organizations will use AI to flatten their structure, eliminating more than half of their current middle-management positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Einstein's theory, meanwhile, treats gravity as a property of space and time itself -- it can bend, flatten, and support waves that travel through it, as gravitational wave detectors have confirmed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

I wet it and do my best to flatten it with the palm of my hand, but it's no use.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

If the U.S. yield curve flattens further, the ETF and the sector could fall, with the ETF potentially dropping to its next major support level at $53.25, which also coincides with the 200-day moving average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The challenge will be convincing investors to finance these huge projects as oil demand flattens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

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

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

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Footage shared online appeared to show one street being completely flattened by bulldozers.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Around 2010, however, that long-running trend unexpectedly flattened.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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

On the third day, they climbed to a high point from which they could see the flattened area where his brother’s two-story residence building once stood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

This is driving flattening along the yield curve, the strategist says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

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

His eyebrows drew together, his voice flattening out.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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