distill
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A.I.-powered diagnostics distill all of this into one clear picture of your entire body, in 360-degree, piercing-into-the-soul, high-resolution detail.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mr. Batiste’s originals distill Monk’s essence yet further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Scientists then distill that blood into antivenom for humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Like any good pastor, he knows how to distill that discontent into soundbites and stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
The expertise at distillation that medieval Islamic alchemists developed to produce alcohols and perfumes also let them distill petroleum into fractions, some of which proved to be even more powerful incendiaries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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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White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Scent is “memory, mood and emotion, distilled into something you can’t see but never forget,” Air Aroma said in a Facebook post earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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
The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
Meanwhile, the Buckeye Institute on the same day asked the Supreme Court to settle a circuit split over whether the federal government can maintain its ban on home distilling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were also a few highly cryptic lines distilling the art and science of navigation.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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