distillation
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“The Dream,” Ashton’s 1964 distillation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to Mendelssohn’s familiar music, gave ABT fertile chances to display its dancing and acting acumen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
At the same time, China also exploited the distillation technique of posing a Western model questions and then training their own models on the answers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Under these conditions, the bark undergoes a process called dry distillation, in which heat breaks down the material and releases substances that can be collected as tar.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
As early as the 19th century, vintners began experimenting with dealcoholized wine using a process known as vacuum distillation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
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