distill
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Quintrell largely stayed true to the novel, although she had to distill a lot of the story down to fit the vignette-like episodic format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
In what was once a cottage industry, startups worth billions now pay humans to distill their hard-won subject-area expertise into lessons for the bots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
For the predictions to be accurate, or efficient, the platforms rely on a pool of traders to distill the wisdom of the crowd.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Like “The Pitt,” “St. Denis Medical” and “Scrubs” distill the unique relationships between doctors, nurses and patients.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
And he’s trying to distill all of these ideas into easily digestible chunks—science meets pop science.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Few artists have had their motives and credibility questioned like Lana Del Rey and on A&W, she distils a life's worth of negativity into a sweeping, wayward seven-minute epic.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
The report, culminating a two-year evaluation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement goals, distils thousands of submissions from experts, governments and campaigners.
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023
Sullivan says that the result he is proudest of is one he obtained in 1977, which distils the crucial properties of a space using a tool called rational homotopy.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2022
The OSP distils those data down to a single metric called the teaching score, which indicates how often a text is assigned in syllabuses.
From Nature ● Oct. 30, 2016
Well, there may be a poison that distils itself out of good things; in an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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I’ve distilled their wisdom into three nonnegotiable rules that I now live by.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
As sunlight is absorbed, the water evaporates and is distilled into fresh water.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
“Well, generally, the AI companies have distilled other AI companies’ models,” said Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Antonelli prevailed in a gripping race, initially staging a three-car fight also including Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, before the race distilled down to a tussle between the Mercedes and Norris.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
The only part of his formula I know is that he uses distilled water for his ice and distills it himself to be sure.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Meanwhile, the Buckeye Institute on the same day asked the Supreme Court to settle a circuit split over whether the federal government can maintain its ban on home distilling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Since February, Anthropic has accused Alibaba and several other Chinese AI labs of illicitly distilling its models-the practice of training a new model on the outputs of another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
With the help of large handheld food mixers, they carefully grind the mixture of dried Californian grapes and water, which they then ferment before distilling it in a large still imported from Germany.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
He was distilling azoth, as he had done hundreds of times before.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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