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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

Moonshot’s new Kimi K3 model has upended this discussion because it earned higher scores in many benchmarks than Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8, the most powerful model it could distill.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 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

And he’s trying to distill all of these ideas into easily digestible chunks—science meets pop science.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Few artists have had their motives and credibility questioned like Lana Del Rey and on A&W, she distils a life's worth of negativity into a sweeping, wayward seven-minute epic.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2023

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

The OSP distils those data down to a single metric called the teaching score, which indicates how often a text is assigned in syllabuses.

From Nature Oct. 30, 2016

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

I’ve distilled their wisdom into three nonnegotiable rules that I now live by.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 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

Triple Eight distilled its first whiskey in 2000, and introduced its first bottling, called the Notch, in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

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

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

Strange wailing sounds filled her ears—millions of heartbroken voices, as if the river were made of distilled sadness.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Laird & Co. was launched with a facility in Colts Neck, N.J., distilling applejack made from orchards in Monmouth County.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 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

Well, two prominent conservative judges now disagree on whether Congress’s constitutional powers justify an 1868 ban on home distilling.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 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

By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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