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distill

[dih-stil] / dɪˈstɪl /


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A.I.-powered diagnostics distill all of this into one clear picture of your entire body, in 360-degree, piercing-into-the-soul, high-resolution detail.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Like any good pastor, he knows how to distill that discontent into soundbites and stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

“Diamond in a Coal Mine” and “Hey God” distill her roots and arrival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Allow us to distill some relevant facts that he omits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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

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

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

White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Scent is “memory, mood and emotion, distilled into something you can’t see but never forget,” Air Aroma said in a Facebook post earlier this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Near the end of our conversation, he told me that foregrounding his own experience was most easily distilled by his ambitions.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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

In 1844, he distilled the crucial parts of his thesis into a 255-page essay and mailed it to his friends to read privately.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The San Francisco-based AI lab also accused Chinese developers of deceptively using Claude to produce responses to user queries while simultaneously "distilling" that data to improve their own models.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Chinese developers have relied on a mix of ingenuity, state support, open-source sharing and distilling from U.S. models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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