flatten
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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
The idea was to stack them up, allowing each to account for a portion of the reductions needed to flatten the surging rate of global emissions.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
It is also encouraging to see the long-term 200-week simple moving average beginning to flatten, a potential sign that the broader downtrend is stabilizing.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Long-end Treasury yields declined more than short-end yields, causing the curve to flatten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Maybe he’d have to flatten his back against the tunnel’s wall.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
“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
But this approach effectively flattens the data - anything above 500 is treated the same on official monitors, even if the real concentration is far higher.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
She flattens her hands against the back of the wardrobe and slides open the panel.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Survivors were mourning while battling shortages of food and shelter, but searches of the scores of flattened apartment buildings have carried on and saved lives.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
"That means we've got evidence of breeding water vole which is brilliant," he continues on the subject of the flattened poo.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Five days after powerful back-to-back quakes flattened entire neighborhoods of multi-story buildings in the coastal state of La Guaira, hopes of finding survivors are fading.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The disaster left thousands sleeping outdoors, flattened neighborhoods from Caracas’s tightly packed districts to the ocean-view communities on the Caribbean, and exposed the country’s crumbling emergency-response system after years of economic collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The little dust devil flattened into a trail.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
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
In the Permian, for example, the company’s top priority is collecting cash after flattening production last year at about 1 million barrels a day, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
He said company bosses were privately acknowledging to him that recruitment of young people is flattening because of the technology.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
This flattening process is happening at warp speed and directly or indirectly touching a lot more people on the planet at once.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
