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
Allow us to distill some relevant facts that he omits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Patience; communication, organizational and presentation skills; the ability to distill complex ideas; and project-management skills are all qualities and skills that can be valuable in many other professions.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 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
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Being forced to use simple language distils her experiences down to the bare truths, adding to their starkness.
From BBC ● May 14, 2022
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
Ram developed a tool called Holepunch for projects that use the statistical programming language R. Holepunch distils the process of setting up Binder into four simple commands.
From Nature ● Nov. 4, 2019
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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Cowin’s own restraint and withholding yield images of distilled power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
On Wednesday, White House science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios shared on X that the government had obtained information showing that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic’s Fable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We've distilled a version of Turing that is a two-dimensional stereotype," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
As sunlight is absorbed, the water evaporates and is distilled into fresh water.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
It smelled of something rich and woody and slightly overpowering: like money, distilled.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Holder is now distilling hundreds of hours of raw camera footage for a documentary currently titled “Lindsey’s Game,” which he said he wants to release in the coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
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
John D. Rockefeller was 24 in 1863 when he invested in the emerging new technology of distilling crude into kerosene.
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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