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distill

[dih-stil] / dɪˈstɪl /


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“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 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

“Part of the sugarcane-making process. They distill it.”

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

Although it seems a trivial example, the video clearly distils many of Labour's key policies into a 38 second long video, and was aimed a young audience unlikely to watch a conventional political broadcast.

From BBC Mar. 30, 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

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

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

"We've distilled a version of Turing that is a two-dimensional stereotype," she added.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

They were taught piano, penmanship, geography, and arithmetic, the world distilled into strange new symbols.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

On that last track, recorded a dozen years ago, Mr. Lloyd, playing alto sax, seems like a fountain, distilling fragments of songs and scales into a narrative that spills forth in graceful gushes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 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

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

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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