flatten
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River can be a good thing, social media algorithms can flatten the context around the waterway, particularly when it comes to demographic changes in nearby neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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
It is also encouraging to see the long-term 200-week simple moving average beginning to flatten, a potential sign that the broader downtrend is stabilizing.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Inside, a high-powered laser fires bursts of light to flatten and vaporize tiny drops of molten tin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
Rosie’s ears flatten against her head, and I lean forward, looking more closely.
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
Peeta unties the cord and flattens out the circle of silk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
The Treasury yield curve has flattened significantly recently as markets priced in more Federal Reserve rate hikes due to inflation fears stemming from higher oil prices, causing yields on short-dated bonds to rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
"That means we've got evidence of breeding water vole which is brilliant," he continues on the subject of the flattened poo.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
She garbled her words and flattened her voice to a mind-numbing drone.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
In May, the company started laying off 8,000 workers, flattening teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
What makes Reble compelling is her refusal to soften herself for wider consumption - she resists explaining, translating or flattening her world into something more familiar.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The yogurt pulls it together without flattening it.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
This phase was just the foundation for the next step in flattening the flat world.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
