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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

When AI developers distill closed models such as Claude, it is a tougher question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Like any good pastor, he knows how to distill that discontent into soundbites and stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

Quintrell largely stayed true to the novel, although she had to distill a lot of the story down to fit the vignette-like episodic format.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

For hundreds of years, alchemists had been trying to distill azoth.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

There was the aura of limitless freedom distilled from the rolling sweep of tall green grass swaying and glinting in the wind and sun.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Some brands opt to skip fermentation, which naturally produces alcohol, and instead mix ingredients such as herbs and spices in hot water before distilling the mixture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

After pausing distilling operations in Clermont, the company moved most of its production to its Booker Noe facility just down the street, named for Noe’s grandfather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

In 1941, the company purchased distilling facilities in Virginia and Lyons, N.Y., to increase production, then during the war it made pectin, a vital preservative used in military food rations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

There were also a few highly cryptic lines distilling the art and sci­ence of navigation.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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