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Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Gartner earlier projected that by the end of 2026, one in five organizations will use AI to flatten their structure, eliminating more than half of their current middle-management positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Einstein's theory, meanwhile, treats gravity as a property of space and time itself -- it can bend, flatten, and support waves that travel through it, as gravitational wave detectors have confirmed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Harry scrambled around, threw himself forward, and managed to flatten it.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

If the U.S. yield curve flattens further, the ETF and the sector could fall, with the ETF potentially dropping to its next major support level at $53.25, which also coincides with the 200-day moving average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The challenge will be convincing investors to finance these huge projects as oil demand flattens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

“There’s going to be a pretty good horse race,” wrote the New York World Telegram, “until Seabiscuit flattens out like a rug at the sixteenth pole.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 is a 58% reduced likelihood of being arrested compared to a comparison group. But WPC is not wrong. It should not be sort of flattened or further simplified as a 58% reduction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

With the sun breaking through and a drying wind, the wicket flattened out and batting seemed to be becoming easier than on day one.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Velia patted her shirt pocket with a flattened hand.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The added scattering produced by these interactions is responsible for the characteristic flattening and eventual increase in electrical resistance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

At first, the flattening yield curve appeared to be contributing to the sector’s weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

City plans call for flattening a downtown convention center, a crumbling church and several nearby buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The quake caused widespread damage in the sweltering southwestern region, flattening homes, damaging bridges, triggering fires and leaving many without electricity and water.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Globalization 3.0 is shrinking the world from a size small to a size tiny and flattening the playing field at the same time.

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