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distill

[dih-stil] / dɪˈstɪl /


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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

And who better to distill reams of complex information than someone who understands a picture is worth a thousand words?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“Diamond in a Coal Mine” and “Hey God” distill her roots and arrival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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

For hundreds of years, alchemists had been trying to distill azoth.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Shot, edited and directed by Matthew Killip, son of the revered British documentary photographer, Chris Killip, it distils Shepherd’s 30-year quest into just 16 magical minutes.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2020

That she gets there via the dancefloor is no surprise, and she distils those experiences into a luminous record that's as sticky as the title suggests.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

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

White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Near the end of our conversation, he told me that foregrounding his own experience was most easily distilled by his ambitions.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It’s distilled and matured in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but then shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the U.S. for distribution to American customers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Cowin’s own restraint and withholding yield images of distilled power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

It sounded like a chant, the way it was distilled, the way it stripped all the mess of the outside down to the bone of the problem.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

Microsoft is weighing whether to host a version of DeepSeek, an ultralow-cost AI provider based in China that OpenAI and Anthropic have called out for distilling, or copying, their top models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

With the help of large handheld food mixers, they carefully grind the mixture of dried Californian grapes and water, which they then ferment before distilling it in a large still imported from Germany.

From Barron's ● May 2, 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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