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His advice to chief executives is to flatten organizations, eliminate “glue people” who perform routine tasks, and focus on inventors, salespeople and leaders.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Whether there is a physical change - or any need for one - is debatable, but fans of the massages claim they help "flatten" and "debloat" and give a "snatched waist" and "sculpted abs".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

What Slack did was radically flatten hierarchies and roles and change who could put what on the agenda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

I flatten myself against the ground and creep forward so I’m facing the mountains, peering through openings between the orange plastic barriers.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Beijing will need to organise a stimulus package to account for the loss of whole percentage points of GDP, the kind of thing that happens when a natural disaster flattens a major city.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

But the cat just narrows his eyes, flattens his one ear, and hisses back at me.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said about 2,000 residents had been displaced by the operation, which has led to at least one whole street appearing to have been flattened, according to footage shared online.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Disruption from AI and geopolitical tensions flattened the market after Monday’s sharp tech-fueled rally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

With the dragon’s broad horselike face and flattened body, it resembled the sort of zmeu that might adorn a medieval icon or tapestry.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

This is driving flattening along the yield curve, the strategist says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

To some, it may feel like Araki is flattening complex social mores and misunderstanding the anxieties behind this era of semi-celibacy.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Rising incomes, flattening prices, and easily available credit have given so many Americans access to such a wide array of high-end goods that traditional markers of status have lost much of their meaning.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times