distillation
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Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Add it all together, and you’re left with perhaps the most fascinating and confounding player in the sport—the perfect distillation of everything that is beautiful and terribly wrong with the modern game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
The memo did not detail any specific plans for action against foreign entities found to be undertaking distillation of US AI technology.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 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
Vocabulary lists containing distillation
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