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
Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mr. Talty presents characters worthy of our interest, but he tends to flatten them into stock types.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
It finally goes through, but only after I press it against the corner of the machine to flatten it.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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
Beijing will need to organise a stimulus package to account for the loss of whole percentage points of GDP, the kind of thing that happens when a natural disaster flattens a major city.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
In the area around Otsuchi, the land alongside those rias flattens out for miles, making it ideal for farming.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Water vole volunteers 'get very excited by flattened poo'
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
From the air, neighborhoods in Cali appeared flattened, with piles of grey rubble replacing entire blocks of homes and apartment buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
We live saturated in opinion, reaction and digital noise, a culture that turns other people into content: flattened, accelerated, easy to dismiss.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
So do the animal-shaped wool carpets that riff on traditional skin rugs by using vegetarian-friendly materials to create colorful, flattened creatures: a fiery, spotted cheetah; a purple-striped dodo; a particularly silly mammoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Charlie pulls out a totally flattened hat, and his shoulders sag a little.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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
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
The bond market is not going to take any of this lightly, either, and the clearest sign of this would be a continued flattening of the yield curve.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The result is flattening and enervating, and my dissatisfaction was apparently shared by others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
I saw the panther’s eyes tracking us, the tiger’s ears flattening just a little.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
