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as in dripped
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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as in filtered
to remove usually visible impurities from
distill the water before pouring it in the steam iron
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Recent Examples of distilled
They were first trained to execute specific movements, and later distilled into a single unified controller that uses visual inputs to plan and coordinate the sequence of actions a robot should take to navigate obstacles efficiently in its environment.
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
How could food from India’s 23 states — with multitudinous subregions and over a thousand dialects — ever be distilled into the generic naan, dal, butter chicken, dosa and sambar?
—Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Her Two Recommendations for Anyone Considering Anderson has distilled her experience into two direct pieces of advice.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Her Two Key Pieces of Advice Anderson has distilled her experience into two recommendations for anyone considering pet cloning.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Drawing on extensive reporting across the state, The Dallas Morning News distilled each candidate’s political pitch into three core questions.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
Of course, that would have been a very different whisky in one significant way—it was distilled before the Glenmorangie company acquired the distillery in 1997 (it was later acquired by LVMH) after a period of sporadic shutdowns over the previous decade.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2026
While the bourbon at Middleburg Barrel Company is Kentucky-distilled, every cask is sourced and hand selected before it is blended, aged, and bottled at the Middleburg headquarters.
—Katie Riley, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
Emirates offers luxury wines, Porter pours free Canadian beer and wine, and Fiji Airways serves creative cocktails featuring spirits distilled on those South Pacific islands.
—Karla Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
How could food from India’s 23 states — with multitudinous subregions and over a thousand dialects — ever be distilled into the generic naan, dal, butter chicken, dosa and sambar?
—Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Her Two Recommendations for Anyone Considering Anderson has distilled her experience into two direct pieces of advice.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Her Two Key Pieces of Advice Anderson has distilled her experience into two recommendations for anyone considering pet cloning.
—Ryan Brennan
march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
Drawing on extensive reporting across the state, The Dallas Morning News distilled each candidate’s political pitch into three core questions.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
Of course, that would have been a very different whisky in one significant way—it was distilled before the Glenmorangie company acquired the distillery in 1997 (it was later acquired by LVMH) after a period of sporadic shutdowns over the previous decade.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2026
While the bourbon at Middleburg Barrel Company is Kentucky-distilled, every cask is sourced and hand selected before it is blended, aged, and bottled at the Middleburg headquarters.
—Katie Riley, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
Emirates offers luxury wines, Porter pours free Canadian beer and wine, and Fiji Airways serves creative cocktails featuring spirits distilled on those South Pacific islands.
—Karla Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distilled
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If the winds were steady enough, as the water dripped down the icicle, it would be pushed back, causing the ice to accumulate in the back, rather than at the bottom.—
Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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The strapless gown was designed with a plunging neckline and dripped in tassel-like gems.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
26 Feb. 2026
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In turn, that filtered into the earnings beat.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Eco effort Water from the lake is pumped from depths of 164 feet and filtered into the hotel’s air conditioning system to cool the rooms in summer.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Mar. 2026
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The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana in Texas, the nation’s largest ICE detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a day for five months, each its own tale of pain and despair.—
Morgan Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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In the aftermath of the Pulse shootings, donations poured in from across the nation.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2026
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The company and its advertising team refined the commercials, and within two years Aflac’s US sales had doubled.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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His teams aren’t always the most talented or refined, but every Spartan opponent knows to bring a hardhat and some extra ice packs.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Trade flowed between the two power blocs of the world.—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Some of that spending flowed through nonprofit groups that do not disclose their contributors.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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Training the controllers The controllers of the humanoid robot were trained on dynamic parkour motions extracted from the dataset, using reinforcement learning.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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To gain a more complete picture Rahman and Galib chemically extracted and analyzed the various rice proteins from brown rice, kernels, and rice bran.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 Mar. 2026
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The team hasn’t clarified, but the players sang the anthem and saluted during the anthem ahead of their 4-0 loss to Australia last Thursday and a 2-0 loss to the Philippines yesterday.—
Yarden Segev,
NBC news,
9 Mar. 2026
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Mahan clarified that severely treatment-resistant homeless people would receive help in a medical setting.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Distilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distilled. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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