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1
as in to drip
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops
the basement walls distill water every time it rains heavily
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2
as in to filter
to remove usually visible impurities from
distill the water before pouring it in the steam iron
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Recent Examples of distill
But these names, which signal both over-the-top satire and dramatization of extreme politics, are some of the small nods and Easter Eggs that Anderson includes in his script for One Battle After Another, which distill the preoccupations of novelist Thomas Pynchon.
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Women have historically held various roles in the bourbon industry, from distilling to marketing.
—Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Oct. 2025
Methanol is an industrial chemical that can cause nerve and liver damage and is sometimes found in fake or poorly distilled alcohol.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
To distill it to any one metric makes little sense.
—Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Women have historically held various roles in the bourbon industry, from distilling to marketing.
—Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Oct. 2025
Methanol is an industrial chemical that can cause nerve and liver damage and is sometimes found in fake or poorly distilled alcohol.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
To distill it to any one metric makes little sense.
—Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distill
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The tissue moves around the periphery of the gastruloid before recirculating down its center — just as wine tears drip back down the side of a glass.—
Anna Demming,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Oct. 2025
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Kristen Scott Thomas, an actress who drips contempt with the acidity of a xenomorph’s blood, doesn’t want to waste time on Roddy’s romantic delusion.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
8 Oct. 2025
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This stricter mode removes comments entirely, filters more mature material, and limits what teens can see or post.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Sheer white curtains filtered the spring light.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Chavarro also said that HSPH leadership planned to clarify which of the school’s decisions are temporary, emergency measures versus actions that will guide the school long-term.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Wicks also helped move the project forward by drafting legislation that clarified noise of future residents was not an issue that must be studied as part of a development’s environmental reviews.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Rare earth elements, essential for everything from superconductors to optical fibers, are difficult to extract and even harder to recycle efficiently.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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Summarize, translate, and extract answers from long documents in seconds.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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Exercises focused on how to find and purify water, fish and hunt for animals, forage for edible plants, find dry wood to build a fire and construct palm leaf-sapling lean-to shelters.—
Kit Bernardi,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The lightweight gel also features hectorite clay—a purifying agent to absorb excess sebum—niacinamide, and of course, ceramides to quell shine and keep blemishes at bay.—
Beatrice Zocchi,
Vogue,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Distill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distill. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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