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distillation

[dis-tl-ey-shuhn] / ˌdɪs tlˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
distillate
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Most facilities still rely on traditional approaches such as distillation and evaporation.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

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

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

As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as fuel for oil lamps.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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