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streamline

[streem-lahyn] / ˈstrimˌlaɪn /






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On Wednesday, the company added that it also intended to cut 40 percent of management posts to streamline decision-making.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The Treasury Department’s auto-enrollment is meant to streamline the process, but it also creates new questions for families.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The measure is intended to streamline public works decision-making to improve city services and add new sources of revenue by leveraging existing resources such as underutilized city land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Enveda is part of a growing wave of biotech startups using artificial intelligence to streamline early stage drug discovery, a process historically marked by high costs and long timelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

“They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The value proposition of generative AI is that it streamlines the process of communicating by skipping connective thought processes.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

The Danbury store is part of a nationwide downsizing as Ethan Allen streamlines stores and lowers expenses while grappling with weak demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Spirit customers can file a proof of claim for their points, vouchers or flight credits through Epiq, a website that streamlines bankruptcy proceedings for companies — but they shouldn’t count on a payout.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026

He highlights the Compass platform for agents, which streamlines an agent’s workflow that would otherwise require several different tools.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

It was a thing of graceful beauty even on the ground, its long curving streamlines giving it wonderful symmetry.

From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell

This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

Some of the latest aircraft feature cockpit windows that are also curved, to make the plane more streamlined, which improves fuel efficiency.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The measures allow for deferrals of—or exemptions from—some government fees, support for hotels and streamlined residency processes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Their streamlined, fusiform bodies combined features characteristic of hexapods and insects with more primitive ancestral traits.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Their training was being streamlined and accelerated, a new camp was being enlarged to take more recruits.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug giant behind Ozempic, is streamlining its corporate culture and shortening its name as it tries to better compete in the market for weight-loss drugs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

It is also unclear whether this new structure will result in financial savings by cutting senior roles or streamlining departments.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The U.S. government is integrating AI into everyday operations, streamlining tasks like fraud detection and permit approval.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The city intends to add 10,000 housing units downtown in the years ahead, which will require streamlining the development approval process to eliminate hurdles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

The adoption of business-like cash management and debt collection initiatives will save over $1 billion, by streamlining the processing of receipts, by controlling disbursements more carefully, and by reducing idle cash balances.

From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter




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