flatten
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The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The ensuing screams were so loud they could flatten an entire city.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Sharing a chatbot creates security vulnerabilities and can flatten the user experience by muddling personalization features, OpenAI warns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
As demand for artificial intelligence skyrockets, AI companies have been grasping for solutions to flatten the steep cost curve of compute.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
Dig up the vegetable garden, everything that was coming up, flatten it, and cover it with dead leaves.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Like VIX, it is not as bullish as it could be: The term structure of the VIX futures rises in the front end of the curve but then flattens out.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
Sometimes it flattens the experience into palatable passive consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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
"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
“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
So do the animal-shaped wool carpets that riff on traditional skin rugs by using vegetarian-friendly materials to create colorful, flattened creatures: a fiery, spotted cheetah; a purple-striped dodo; a particularly silly mammoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In “Neon Demon,” he shot Elle Fanning like a million bucks, but gave her the personality of a flattened penny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"Spain scalped France - they flattened France," said former Premier League champion Chris Sutton, who was at the game for BBC Radio 5 Live.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
In 1950, he oversaw the invasion of South Korea, starting a war that would end in a stalemate with the North flattened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Hearing the sound of motorcycles approaching, they flattened themselves against the wall of an abandoned cottage.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty on Friday after tournament officials ruled he had improved the area of his backswing by flattening down some long grass on Royal Birkdale's fifth hole.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
At this stage, the flattening appears to reflect a market that believes policy is not restrictive enough to bring inflation back to target, rather than a market focused primarily on slowing growth.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Critics of the change say this risks flattening meaningful distinctions between religious identities, particularly for service members whose beliefs do not fall neatly into major denominational groupings.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
A reopening of the Strait of Hormuz would likely lead to a steepening of sovereign curves, whereas a renewed escalation could trigger more flattening, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The other mother stood there in the paper-gray fog of the flattening world.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
