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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

Funko’s job, he said, is to distill what people love about a character into a stylized version of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Academics have tried to distill its essence, most famously in a paper called “Buffett’s Alpha.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Scientists then distill that blood into antivenom for humans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

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

That she gets there via the dancefloor is no surprise, and she distils those experiences into a luminous record that's as sticky as the title suggests.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

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

He distilled the disagreement into the dissent’s sharpest line.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

I’ve distilled their wisdom into three nonnegotiable rules that I now live by.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

She was, Sarai thought, like springtime distilled into a person.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

While some lawyers try to fight every battle in a court case, Wilkinson, 63 years old, is known for distilling cases in her courtroom presentations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

On that last track, recorded a dozen years ago, Mr. Lloyd, playing alto sax, seems like a fountain, distilling fragments of songs and scales into a narrative that spills forth in graceful gushes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Transformative technologies never arrive fully formed; they rely upon determined practitioners committed to the painstaking work of distilling extravagant promise into daily practice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

It makes you think you’ve always felt like this, and there’s no place to go but down, where it slowly, ravenously digests your will, distilling it into the ebony crude of nightmares.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman


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