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The idea was to stack them up, allowing each to account for a portion of the reductions needed to flatten the surging rate of global emissions.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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 is also encouraging to see the long-term 200-week simple moving average beginning to flatten, a potential sign that the broader downtrend is stabilizing.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

We're here to find out what version of Fury we're going to see - the fleet-footed mover, or someone who has made a conscious decision to flatten his feet and rely more on upper-body movement.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Concealed by a clump of bushes, I flatten out on my belly and slide under a two-foot stretch that's been loose for years.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

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

“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

"If you think about taking a bowl of pizza dough and setting it spinning above your head, it flattens out," she explained.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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

Before I can say anything, William stands up, takes his hat off and flattens down his hair.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

In 1950, he oversaw the invasion of South Korea, starting a war that would end in a stalemate with the North flattened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Authorities reported nearly 2,600 deaths as of Thursday from the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck the country last week, most in coastal town of La Guaira, where scores of residential complexes were flattened.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

"We get very excited by flattened poo," is a sentence I was not expecting.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The scene around more than 100 flattened buildings is apocalyptic.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

I didn't feel so much as a twinge of pain, despite having been flattened by a train three days ago.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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 result is flattening and enervating, and my dissatisfaction was apparently shared by others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

What makes Reble compelling is her refusal to soften herself for wider consumption - she resists explaining, translating or flattening her world into something more familiar.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

The yogurt pulls it together without flattening it.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

While economics and the flattening of the world have pushed Reuters down this path, Glocer has tried to make a virtue of necessity.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman