flatten
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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
What Slack did was radically flatten hierarchies and roles and change who could put what on the agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Harry watched the grass flatten in patches all around the cabin and heard three pairs of feet retreating.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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
“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 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
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
As I reload, Brutus flattens on the ground, rolls the few feet to the water, and submerges.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
It’s the austerity era, with flattened hierarchies and more work left to middle managers who remain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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 stomped and flattened the dirt with my foot.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
The added scattering produced by these interactions is responsible for the characteristic flattening and eventual increase in electrical resistance.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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
Rather than flattening payroll disparities, however, the gap between high-spending teams and small-market clubs has created a gaping chasm over the past three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
The other mother stood there in the paper-gray fog of the flattening world.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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