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as in smoothed
to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps
flattened out the wrinkled paper before attempting to trace the pattern
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as in whipped
to defeat by a large margin
if you don't understand the rules, you're going to get flattened when you try to play
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Recent Examples of flattened
Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
This garden party designer dollset comes with a poseable Barbie doll that stands on a base, a pre-flattened Play-Doh sheet that looks like fabric with fun designs and three extra cans of colorful Play-Doh for endless outfits.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Viewing their actions and ideas strictly through a Cold War lens has oversimplified Korean hopes and ambitions and flattened the complexity of their post-liberation experience.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
This grass forms large clumps of narrow, flattened green leaves from which rise upright flowering stalks bearing narrow flower plums.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
This stems from the concept of reparations in the popular consciousness being flattened to mean checks for Black people making up for the harms of slavery.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The patient’s tooth is pulled and then flattened, and a small hole is then drilled in the center.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
Since then, many buildings that appeared still to be standing have been completely flattened.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Others are greedily consuming matter that surrounds them in a flattened, swirling cloud called an accretion disk.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Research shows the gender pay gap has been closing for decades, but progress has nearly stalled since the mid-1990s as wage growth for both men and women has flattened.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
The company’s smaller sized safes, which begin at $1,350 per year and are the size of a semi-flattened shoebox, are all currently occupied.
—Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
This garden party designer dollset comes with a poseable Barbie doll that stands on a base, a pre-flattened Play-Doh sheet that looks like fabric with fun designs and three extra cans of colorful Play-Doh for endless outfits.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Adjective
The new study suggests that the ship probably sank from an explosion, which caused the shots stored near gunpowder to fly around and get flattened.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Viewing their actions and ideas strictly through a Cold War lens has oversimplified Korean hopes and ambitions and flattened the complexity of their post-liberation experience.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
This grass forms large clumps of narrow, flattened green leaves from which rise upright flowering stalks bearing narrow flower plums.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
This stems from the concept of reparations in the popular consciousness being flattened to mean checks for Black people making up for the harms of slavery.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The patient’s tooth is pulled and then flattened, and a small hole is then drilled in the center.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
Since then, many buildings that appeared still to be standing have been completely flattened.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Others are greedily consuming matter that surrounds them in a flattened, swirling cloud called an accretion disk.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Research shows the gender pay gap has been closing for decades, but progress has nearly stalled since the mid-1990s as wage growth for both men and women has flattened.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flattened
Verb
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Crow’s feet are smoothed with the winch of a hair elastic.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
23 Sep. 2025
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The appearance at the memorial appeared to show that the rift between the two had, at least temporarily, smoothed.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hakeem actually whipped his members to shut the government down.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Folding whipped topping gently into the pudding mixture keeps the filling fluffy and mousse-like.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The rounded piston heads, slotted into a rounded chamber to match, offered higher efficiency with less energy lost to heat while fuel is combusted before being sent out as exhaust.—
Liam Rappleye,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Pinch off spent flower heads but leave any rounded buds.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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Set in Britain in 1953, the series will follow a new generation of the Shelby family as Birmingham tries to build a better future out of concrete and steel after being heavily bombed in WWII.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Horton threw off flat ground on Friday and Saturday before the playoffs started and had hoped to throw from the mound last Sunday.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
4 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, Lillard told me, the cost of labor and the price tag of many individual vaccines have continued to rise, while payments from insurance companies have remained relatively flat.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The number of people believed buried was revised down to 59, from 91, on Wednesday.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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The men dropped onto Sulztalferner glacier in Tyrol’s Ötztal Valley and were said to have buried their parachutes in the snow before pressing on.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This multi-level facility unfolds to reveal a waiting room, patient rooms, and operating rooms, each of which are spacious and well-furnished.—
Pamela Brill,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ahead of Amazon's October Prime Day, a multi-level cat tree is on sale for 23% off.—
Christine Persaud,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The logo, hands, indexes, and rotor are trimmed in British racing green—the color of the legendary car brand.—
Carol Besler,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
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Her dark brown bob was freshly trimmed and curled toward her face; the top brushed and styled over the left side of her head.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Flattened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flattened. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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