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
Millions of people putting their savings at risk distill available information pretty well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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 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
“Sheriff, how many times do I have to ask that you send them down to the lab? I can’t do anything here, and it takes a while to distill the vaccine.”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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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
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
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
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I’ve distilled their wisdom into three nonnegotiable rules that I now live by.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 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
Antonelli prevailed in a gripping race, initially staging a three-car fight also including Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, before the race distilled down to a tussle between the Mercedes and Norris.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
A stage adaptation can’t duplicate the way Lumet visually distilled the rough-and-tumble New York zeitgeist of the tumultuous early 1970s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
During the time before the Revolution, the American colonies received molasses, which was produced in the Caribbean islands, and then distilled it into rum.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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Chinese developers have relied on a mix of ingenuity, state support, open-source sharing and distilling from U.S. models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In 1941, the company purchased distilling facilities in Virginia and Lyons, N.Y., to increase production, then during the war it made pectin, a vital preservative used in military food rations.
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
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
In Mr. Ferris’s physical science class we were distilling aspirins, very large aspirins, which by the time the last bell rang Mr. Ferris said he needed.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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