flatten
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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
James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
There was less than an inch between the floor and the bottom of the cabinet, so that she could not walk properly but had to flatten herself out and crawl.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
His voice flattens, his words become stripped back.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
So I sliced the kielbasa into coins, cut up one red pepper and one medium onion, tucked the whole thing into a reusable freezer bag and flattened it out.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
After she finally sought treatment, she wrote, the medication she was prescribed flattened her — in one instance she fell asleep for hours on the set of “Nashville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He pointed to a pile of litter and flattened cardboard boxes on the concrete ground where he said he was sleeping at night.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Its fluffy coating of white feathers was flattened with salt spray, making it look—and smell— convincingly like a large white seabird, or the remains of one.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
However, the yield curve began rolling over in April 2025 and has been flattening again since year-end.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
At this stage, the flattening appears to reflect a market that believes policy is not restrictive enough to bring inflation back to target, rather than a market focused primarily on slowing growth.
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
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy instructed senior leadership teams to increase the ratio of staff to managers by at least 15%, flattening organizational layers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
An ironsmith flattening a sheet of recalcitrant metal.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
