flatten
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James C. Scott called this legibility, the way institutions flatten complicated people into categories they can manage.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
"Water voles have got scent glands on their feet and they will stamp down on the poo and they'll flatten it around and that is them scent marking their territory."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
His ears flatten and he raises a paw.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
The shape of the yield curve is a major driver – when it flattens, it tends to indicate 10-year yields will drop.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 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
But this approach effectively flattens the data - anything above 500 is treated the same on official monitors, even if the real concentration is far higher.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2025
Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
Peeta unties the cord and flattens out the circle of silk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
The cloud collapsed and flattened into a disk, eventually giving rise to the sun at its center and the planets that formed around it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The yield curve has flattened out over roughly the past seven months as traders on Wall Street pushed the policy-sensitive 2-year Treasury yield dramatically higher.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
It’s the austerity era, with flattened hierarchies and more work left to middle managers who remain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Any wet clothing had to be flattened and worked down into the bag to dry as well.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
At first, the flattening yield curve appeared to be contributing to the sector’s weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“We seem to have exited the bull steepening of the past two years and may be heading for bear flattening, where yields rise and spreads compress,” it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Treating scientific opinion as simply “for” or “against” risks flattening these important distinctions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
To some, it may feel like Araki is flattening complex social mores and misunderstanding the anxieties behind this era of semi-celibacy.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
An ironsmith flattening a sheet of recalcitrant metal.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
