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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Einstein's theory, meanwhile, treats gravity as a property of space and time itself -- it can bend, flatten, and support waves that travel through it, as gravitational wave detectors have confirmed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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

Although long-term agreements from memory companies and a redesign of AI chips to address memory constraints “could flatten the amplitude of the cycle,” Moore said those factors should increase the duration of the memory boom.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Her eyes narrow and her enormous ears flatten against her head.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

If the U.S. yield curve flattens further, the ETF and the sector could fall, with the ETF potentially dropping to its next major support level at $53.25, which also coincides with the 200-day moving average.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

But funding a nongambler’s entrance into the gambling world as a kind of comedic protagonist not only puts the writer at risk but also flattens the seriousness of the story’s subject.

From Slate ● May 5, 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

Over and over again, this documentary makes the point that the screen flattens people’s full humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

The walls on either side of us gradually disappear as the land flattens out, and I see buildings everywhere, some small, like the Abnegation houses, and some wide, like city buildings turned on their sides.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

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

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

“It is a 58% reduced likelihood of being arrested compared to a comparison group. But WPC is not wrong. It should not be sort of flattened or further simplified as a 58% reduction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

With the sun breaking through and a drying wind, the wicket flattened out and batting seemed to be becoming easier than on day one.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

"When I first came here and saw the suffering and ruin, it nearly broke my heart. A once-great city flattened, and the people digging in the mud like dogs. I could hardly bear it."

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

At first, the flattening yield curve appeared to be contributing to the sector’s weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Rather than flattening payroll disparities, however, the gap between high-spending teams and small-market clubs has created a gaping chasm over the past three decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Treating scientific opinion as simply “for” or “against” risks flattening these important distinctions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 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

The dough he had been poorly flattening to that point tore at a thin spot, splitting in half before it fell between the grates of the stovetop—straight onto the open flame.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith