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as in to smooth
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 to bury
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 flatten
Inside a courthouse in New Hampshire, a pair of agents tackled a Venezuelan man outside an elevator, flattening an older man with a cane in the process.
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Gene Johnson and Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
What to watch: KeyBanc downgraded Microsoft to sector weight from overweight earlier in April ahead of the report, highlighting a few risks such as flattening cloud demand and a tricky AI landscape.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Divide the batter evenly among the paper liners, using the back of a spoon to flatten out the tops.
—Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 25 Apr. 2025
There are options to manage this uncertainty so these changes don’t flatten your business.
—Micah Logan, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Gene Johnson and Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
What to watch: KeyBanc downgraded Microsoft to sector weight from overweight earlier in April ahead of the report, highlighting a few risks such as flattening cloud demand and a tricky AI landscape.
—Fred Imbert, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Divide the batter evenly among the paper liners, using the back of a spoon to flatten out the tops.
—Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 25 Apr. 2025
There are options to manage this uncertainty so these changes don’t flatten your business.
—Micah Logan, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatten
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The Red Sox may be hoping a similar meeting in Kansas City can smooth things over with their star player.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
10 May 2025
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Her super long ponytail, which was teased and smoothed with Tangle Teezer’s Ultimate Detangler Chrome, is not-so-rudely interrupted by tiers of bulbous rings of red hair.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
5 May 2025
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Cause of death: There are several causes of death because Ulric receives the nine lives of a cat: shot in the head, drowned, hanged, car crash, electrocuted, crossbow, stabbed, suffocated after burying himself alive. Sad or satisfying?—
Carrie Wittmer,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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When managers bury the message in a compliment sandwich, it gets lost.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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Yet amid the devastation, a few glimmers of hope remain—Palestine’s U-20 national women’s team recently won the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship, overcoming Jordan 4-2 in a penalty shootout in the final following a 1-1 draw.—
Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2025
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During a stretch in which the Twins are outscoring opponents 68-29, the team is receiving contributions from just about everyone on the roster while concurrently overcoming the mounting injuries.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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But her arrival poses a major emotional roadblock to March’s traditional family, who are jaded from a bad experience when a dead employee returned as a vacuum and threw a metaphorical wrench into their business.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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That would mean being immediately thrown into the deep end.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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Caballero looked on the verge of tears as the Ivorian whipped the ball into the corner, a heroic performance from a back-up goalkeeper who’d played in every previous round to repay manager Manuel Pellegrini’s faith.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Appropriately, those flags whipped atop the Hall of Fame building on a particularly windy Friday, hours before a 40-year ceremony for the 1985 team and a day prior to a 10-year reunion for the 2015 team.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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When Russia began bombing Kyiv in 2022, the walls were blown away, exposing the old newspapers.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The Yankees knotted things back up in the sixth against Canning, as Bellinger bombed his sixth homer of the year 432 feet to right-center.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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These particle pairs pop in and out of existence, rapidly annihilating each other.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
15 May 2025
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Small amounts of antimatter are also produced by lightning during a thunderstorm but they are almost instantly annihilated by matter, Vaudo notes.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Abandoning the arc allowed defenses to smother the paint, leaving then-rookies Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese burdened with double teams.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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To paraphrase the historian Simon Schama, if Thatcher was the stern nanny who gave Brits their medicine, Diana was the loving mother who smothered them in tactile affection.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
10 May 2025
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“Flatten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatten. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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