flatten
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The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The ensuing screams were so loud they could flatten an entire city.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Mr. Talty presents characters worthy of our interest, but he tends to flatten them into stock types.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
From behind a pillow I tried to flatten myself down into the floor.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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
His voice flattens, his words become stripped back.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
As I reload, Brutus flattens on the ground, rolls the few feet to the water, and submerges.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
We live saturated in opinion, reaction and digital noise, a culture that turns other people into content: flattened, accelerated, easy to dismiss.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
So do the animal-shaped wool carpets that riff on traditional skin rugs by using vegetarian-friendly materials to create colorful, flattened creatures: a fiery, spotted cheetah; a purple-striped dodo; a particularly silly mammoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The hapless sunfish can weigh up to 2,000 kilograms and is distinct for both its size and peculiar shape featuring a flattened body and fins.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
In “Neon Demon,” he shot Elle Fanning like a million bucks, but gave her the personality of a flattened penny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The cave opening vanished and the mound flattened again.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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
The bond market is not going to take any of this lightly, either, and the clearest sign of this would be a continued flattening of the yield curve.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Critics of the change say this risks flattening meaningful distinctions between religious identities, particularly for service members whose beliefs do not fall neatly into major denominational groupings.
From Salon ● Jun. 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
Professionally, the recognition that the world was flat was unnerving because I realized that this flattening had been taking place while I was sleeping, and I had missed it.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
