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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
Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
One airstrike flattened a residential building in the urban Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken.
—Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
One airstrike flattened a residential building in the urban Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, according to the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al Balah, where the casualties were taken.
—Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
The positive news is that despite headliners within the past few months about companies mandating return to the office, overall, the number has flattened out over the past couple quarters.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Any Iranian build-up of arms in Syria got detected early and flattened by the Israelis.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
The class teaches how lasagna mulching — using flattened, wet cardboard and wood chips— helps improve soil health and suppress weeds.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
James leaped to keep a bad pass from being a turnover, tipping it to Dalton Knecht for a three, only to be flattened during a collision and slow to get up.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
Residents will return to vast destruction wrought by the Israeli military, with entire villages flattened.
—Bassem Mroue, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Verb
Passing power is readily available and the ten-speed is amenable to being flattened when trying to hit a closing gap in traffic.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
One airstrike flattened a residential building in the urban Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken.
—Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
One airstrike flattened a residential building in the urban Bureij refugee camp Sunday afternoon, according to the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al Balah, where the casualties were taken.
—Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
The positive news is that despite headliners within the past few months about companies mandating return to the office, overall, the number has flattened out over the past couple quarters.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Any Iranian build-up of arms in Syria got detected early and flattened by the Israelis.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
The class teaches how lasagna mulching — using flattened, wet cardboard and wood chips— helps improve soil health and suppress weeds.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
James leaped to keep a bad pass from being a turnover, tipping it to Dalton Knecht for a three, only to be flattened during a collision and slow to get up.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
Residents will return to vast destruction wrought by the Israeli military, with entire villages flattened.
—Bassem Mroue, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flattened
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The rounded cap, with its short, stiff brim, is a more fashionable take on a beret — and a style that designers like Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana continue to reinvent in classic tweed or edgy lace and netting.Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
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Pulling from these heroes’ and villains’ moves found in comics and films gives Marvel Rivals’ characters a more rounded kit, allowing all of them to have some form of movement, as well as a long-range and close-range attack.Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Franklin Fire ignited Monday night after days of extremely dangerous fire conditions when Santa Ana winds whipped across the region.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Before turning back, many of them whipped out their phones to snap a photo of the divers.Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The broader crypto market, as measured by the CoinDesk 20 index, hovered below the flat line. Among crypto stocks, Coinbase was litte changed in premarket trading.Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
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This ties performance to payment, in contrast to traditional influencer approach — most influencers charge a flat rate, so they get paid the same whether their video gets two views or 2 million.Elias Leight, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Syrian civil war, up to last week, was the tedious winnowing process in which the Assad government bombed, killed, and terrorized Syrians into either fleeing the country or submitting to him.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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The memoir is also getting review-bombed on sites like Goodreads with one-star ratings before anyone has read a page.Timothy Bella, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
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Tottenham were suddenly level late in the first half and never looked back.Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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If the players are level after 14 classical games, a tie-break will be played on December 13.Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly all of their gravestones have sunk below the surface.Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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The women called rescue services to say they were buried by debris for seven hours after the attack late Tuesday in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s Emergency Services said, as deadly Russian strikes on civilian areas continue in the almost three-year war.Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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The ones that come to mind for us are easily Beyond Yoga’s super soft, smooth Spacedye tights.Sara Coughlin, SELF, 10 Dec. 2024
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Foods with a hard, smooth surface, such as cucumbers, are easier to rinse off.Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Dec. 2024
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There are also far too many songs in A Complete Unknown—most are profoundly affecting, but a few ought to have been strategically trimmed.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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The hope is that NASA will use its limited budget to continue to fund this kind of research, but the worry is that as costs get trimmed with a focus on human exploration of the Moon and Mars, work that doesn’t have an obvious and immediate practical application will fall by the wayside.Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Flattened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flattened. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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