flatten out

Example Sentences

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Moderate relief is in sight this weekend, when forecasters predict the powerful high pressure system will start to flatten out, bringing a gradual dip in temperatures.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

BOISE, Idaho—Each afternoon at around 4:30, the earth here shakes from a series of controlled explosions, as engineers blast through basalt bedrock to flatten out the ground underneath a gigantic new semiconductor factory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

But their stocks are starting to flatten out or fall, a sign investors have begun to look elsewhere.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Rather than plummeting, “prices are going to flatten out and stop going up so rapidly, but kind of hold where they are,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025

By now the smell’s so strong rhat it begins to flatten out, as if there’s no more my nose can absorb.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins