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distill

[dih-stil] / dɪˈstɪl /


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When AI developers distill closed models such as Claude, it is a tougher question.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

“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

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

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

Ram developed a tool called Holepunch for projects that use the statistical programming language R. Holepunch distils the process of setting up Binder into four simple commands.

From Nature Nov. 4, 2019

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

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

I’ve distilled their wisdom into three nonnegotiable rules that I now live by.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Kratsios said on X that the US government has information that Moonshot AI "distilled" capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI for the development of its K3 model.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

But now-I want you to feel old, I want a little of my cowardice to be distilled in you tonight.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

While some lawyers try to fight every battle in a court case, Wilkinson, 63 years old, is known for distilling cases in her courtroom presentations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 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

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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