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distill

[dih-stil] / dɪˈstɪl /


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Scientists then distill that blood into antivenom for humans.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

And who better to distill reams of complex information than someone who understands a picture is worth a thousand words?

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

For the predictions to be accurate, or efficient, the platforms rely on a pool of traders to distill the wisdom of the crowd.

From Barron's Feb. 27, 2026

Like “The Pitt,” “St. Denis Medical” and “Scrubs” distill the unique relationships between doctors, nurses and patients.

From Salon Feb. 26, 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

On Wednesday, White House science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios shared on X that the government had obtained information showing that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic’s Fable.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Kratsios said on X that the US government has information that Moonshot AI "distilled" capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI for the development of its K3 model.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

As sunlight is absorbed, the water evaporates and is distilled into fresh water.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

Under U.S. law, bourbon must be distilled from a mix of grains containing at least 51% corn, and aged in new, charred barrels of oak.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

During the time before the Revolution, the American colonies received molasses, which was produced in the Caribbean islands, and then distilled it into rum.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Chinese developers have relied on a mix of ingenuity, state support, open-source sharing and distilling from U.S. models.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Microsoft is weighing whether to host a version of DeepSeek, an ultralow-cost AI provider based in China that OpenAI and Anthropic have called out for distilling, or copying, their top models.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

John D. Rockefeller was 24 in 1863 when he invested in the emerging new technology of distilling crude into kerosene.

From Barron's May 2, 2026

Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.

From Science Daily Apr. 26, 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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