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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

Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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

Time was slow ’nough that I seent his nose flatten out and spread o’er his cheeks, looking like someone had slapped him in the face with a piece of brownish Georgia ham.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The shape of the yield curve is a major driver – when it flattens, it tends to indicate 10-year yields will drop.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Everyone flattens ideas into a tiny text box for AI, and Olive’s patented model training retains the prosody and turn-taking in a voice exchange to reveal uncompressed intent that a frontier model needs,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

Before I can say anything, William stands up, takes his hat off and flattens down his hair.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

With the sun breaking through and a drying wind, the wicket flattened out and batting seemed to be becoming easier than on day one.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

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

"I am sorry, Your Exalted Majesty," the king said, flattening himself even lower to the ground.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin