flatten
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James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Sharing a chatbot creates security vulnerabilities and can flatten the user experience by muddling personalization features, OpenAI warns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
This afternoon, I used his mortar and pestle to grind coriander seeds, first crushing them as hard as I could, then twisting the pestle in circles to flatten them and make them into a powder.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
The challenge will be convincing investors to finance these huge projects as oil demand flattens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
She flattens out the creases as well as she can and drags the floor lamp closer and places the print before her son.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
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
To build an airport, the Navy flattened a mountain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
Hills flattened into nothingness, lowlands rose until they merged with promontories, and every part of Durham was revealed and intelligible in the gelid light.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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
Since then, the yield curve has been flattening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
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 flattening of the third and seventh notches on the scale is consistent with centuries-old African melody modes, memories of which had clearly not been lost among the children and grandchildren of slaves.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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