distill
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Like any good pastor, he knows how to distill that discontent into soundbites and stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Quintrell largely stayed true to the novel, although she had to distill a lot of the story down to fit the vignette-like episodic format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Allow us to distill some relevant facts that he omits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Patience; communication, organizational and presentation skills; the ability to distill complex ideas; and project-management skills are all qualities and skills that can be valuable in many other professions.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 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
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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
Ram developed a tool called Holepunch for projects that use the statistical programming language R. Holepunch distils the process of setting up Binder into four simple commands.
From Nature ● Nov. 4, 2019
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
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White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
He distilled the disagreement into the dissent’s sharpest line.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Cowin’s own restraint and withholding yield images of distilled power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
On Wednesday, White House science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios shared on X that the government had obtained information showing that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic’s Fable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was a pure, distilled strand of hatred, weaving its way through my core.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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The San Francisco-based AI lab also accused Chinese developers of deceptively using Claude to produce responses to user queries while simultaneously "distilling" that data to improve their own models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some brands opt to skip fermentation, which naturally produces alcohol, and instead mix ingredients such as herbs and spices in hot water before distilling the mixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Since February, Anthropic has accused Alibaba and several other Chinese AI labs of illicitly distilling its models-the practice of training a new model on the outputs of another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
After pausing distilling operations in Clermont, the company moved most of its production to its Booker Noe facility just down the street, named for Noe’s grandfather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
It makes you think you’ve always felt like this, and there’s no place to go but down, where it slowly, ravenously digests your will, distilling it into the ebony crude of nightmares.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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