distilled

past tense of distill

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of distilled Harvest plate at the Deer and the Dove This offers the season’s best distilled onto one plate. Angela Hansberger, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026 The Balvenie Eighty-Eight-Year-Old was distilled on March 5, 1931, and spent its entire maturation lifespan in a European oak sherry butt from Jerez, Spain (cask #239). Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2026 It must also be mashed, distilled, and aged in the United States. Emily Price, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Venezuelan oil, by contrast, is heavy, sour sludge, which can more easily be distilled into asphalt, industrial oils, diesel and jet fuel. David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 This movement is composed of various factions, as Laura Field has distilled in her authoritative work Furious Minds. Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026 Almost everything on the menu grows, swims, or gets distilled within a few kilometers of the kitchen. Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distilled
Verb
  • The whole room dripped in a deep purple hue, really leaning into its name.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Nidhi’s neighbor Payal had a cocker spaniel named Lucy, who regularly dripped spots of blood onto the driveway.
    Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That signal is often invisible on a résumé filtered by degree or title.
    Brittany Murrey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The higher someone rises, the more information is filtered before reaching them.
    Julio Ottino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Ballmer poured billions into the team, including paying for its new arena, which opened in Inglewood in 2024 and was used as the site of the NBA All-Star Game in February.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Illusion Of 'Clean' Data Over the past decade, companies have poured enormous effort into data quality, governance frameworks, master data initiatives and cloud migrations.
    Kevin Campbell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For the global economy to function, copious amounts of oil — 100 million barrels a day of the stuff — must be found, extracted, transported, refined into usable products and delivered to customers.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Working closely with its wholesale technology team, Arc’teryx refined its order workflows, gathered feedback directly from dealers and observed the buying process to understand where retailers were encountering obstacles.
    Advertorial, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Famously, Stevie’s substance of choice was cocaine, which flowed backstage along with champagne.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Everything about the experience, better than water itself, just flowed.
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Days before the hawker crackdown, Ruto ordered India’s Tata Chemicals to leave Kenya, arguing that the company had extracted value from the country without creating enough local investment or jobs.
    Vivianne Wandera, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Rushworth’s departure has clarified the goalkeeper situation at Brighton.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • These ads seem to violate federal child pornography laws, since the Justice Department has clarified that AI CSAM is just as harmful as CSAM.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Distilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distilled. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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