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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

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

When I hear the next hiss, I flatten on the ground, not taking time to look.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

The shape of the yield curve is a major driver – when it flattens, it tends to indicate 10-year yields will drop.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

As I reload, Brutus flattens on the ground, rolls the few feet to the water, and submerges.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

Around 2010, however, that long-running trend unexpectedly flattened.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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

It was about the size of a small fist: brawn, furry and oddly flattened, probably by an ice-fall.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

The driverless tractor with spiked steel wheels will run over a programmed course, flattening newly spread trash to create space to bury more garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

This flattening is a problem for market values of mortgage-backed securities because it pushes down expectations for long-term interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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

I smoothed my palm over the cover, flattening a corner that might have bent in the fall from Fred’s window.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen