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How to use the word flatten in a Sentence?

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Unless the Russians intend to be completely genocidal – they could flatten all the major cities, and Ukrainians will rise up against Russian occupation – there will be just constant guerrilla war.

Michael Clarke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our hypothesis is that in a diseased state, your brain is going to have higher energy hills and lower energy valleys. More so than a placebo, different parts of their brain can’t talk to each other, that’s why someone stuck in a negative pattern of thought could be having a hard time — in spite of new evidence they’re not able to see that there are reasons to be happy. Psychedelic therapy could flatten out that energy landscape again and allow more information to come in. It could allow depressed or anxious people to update their models of the world.

Parker Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The amount of pent-up demand is slowly being unwound and over the next year it is probably going to result in one the strongest growth in 20 years and markets are pricing that in, right now, it’s a race between cases and the vaccine and the vaccine will ultimately win out and the curve will flatten out.

Peter Essele

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We must refrain from gathering with people from outside our household, wherever possible, this most recent surge in COVID-19 cases presents us with an opportunity to work together, again, to reduce its spread and flatten the curve.

Eric Garcetti

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Ninety-two percent of our state's 105 counties have moderate or high levels of community transmission, i know we all want this to be over, we all want to turn to some semblance of normal but we can not return... until this virus is under control, until we flatten the curve, until a vaccine is available, widely distributed and vaccination rates are significant.

The Governor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

BUT still, there are many people in our country refusing to take the necessary steps to flatten the curve, and keep each other safe, people seem worried about their rights being taken away by being asked to wear a mask. This simple and effective recommendation is being politicized at the expense of peoples lives.And it really shouldnt be a debate.

Jennifer Aniston

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

While the rest of the country did quarantine or was able to stay home to flatten that curve... the Latinx community continued to go to work, so what we're seeing is now all these people who have been essential workers, who worked without even the masking and the protection that was legally required during the time of their jobs, are now becoming infected by the virus.

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We still have two to three more weeks to curtail this disease and probably plateau or flatten it out.

Paryus Patel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We've been looking at the curve in Alaska, we've been able to flatten that curve because Alaskans are doing a good job.

Health Commissioner Adam Crum

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our actions have been better than the statisticians believed. So, we can flatten the curve. We are flattening the curve, we have to maintain it, but the human cost here, the human toll, the suffering, is just incredible. It's just incredible.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our efforts to flatten the curve are starting to pay off.

Governor Phil Murphy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The governor brought together experts to really try to understand if we flatten our curve, if we do all of this social distancing and stay at home how should we be thinking about what to prepare for.

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This good work cant stop here, though. It is critical that we further open opportunities for those on private insurance to see medical professionals including nurses and physicians assistantsto practice telemedicine without being confined to the borders of their own state, if we want to flatten the curve, its going to take all hands on deck.

Josh Archambault

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The good news is that states like Washington, like California, countries like Italy, when White House experts leaned into aggressive mitigation, White House experts're being able to flatten White House experts curve, the governors get to make the decisions, but we're going to give them the best possible guidance we can and that's to stay at home and social distance.

Jerome Adams

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My big hang-up here is when the curve does start to flatten, that doesn't mean we can return to normal human and economic behavior, if we do return to normal human and economic behavior, we risk the chance the curve goes parabolic again. Just from the perspective of how long this potentially can last, there's still a great deal of uncertainty.

Yousef Abbasi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The best thing everybody can do to help the medical profession as follow the rules set down to flatten the curve by minimizing contact and risk of infection. Only go to the emergency department if you are sicker than a dog and feel like you are heading towards death, otherwise, find some way of triaging yourself through telemedicine and similar no-contact communication.

Dan Field

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's very, very important, again, that we do what the professionals are telling us to do, which is flatten that curve, take all the appropriate measures for United States in the military.

United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm grateful to be alive and healthy. It gives me hope that through our collective efforts we can beat this thing and flatten the curve.

Daniel Dae Kim

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were doing everything to flatten the curve, i dont think we are going to be able to flatten the curve enough to meet the capacity of the health care system.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The continued decline in the cancer death rate over the past 25 years is really good news and was a little bit of a surprise, only because the other leading causes of death in the United States are starting to flatten. So we've been wondering if that's going to happen for cancer as well, but so far American Cancer Society hasn't.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The continued decline in the cancer death rate over the past 25 years is really good news and was a little bit of a surprise, only because the other leading causes of death in the US are starting to flatten. So we've been wondering if that's going to happen for cancer as well, but so far it hasn't.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The government warned it would flatten Sur and build a new city in its place with apartment blocks and shopping malls.

Zulfu Livaneli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Chinese oil demand growth, the largest single contributor to world oil demand growth, may begin to flatten more quickly than some long-term projections indicate, this could result in world oil demand growth falling from its 2000-2016 trend of 1.1 million bpd year-on-year to only 800,000 bpd ... by 2024.

Deutsche Bank

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

By the end of this year, there will be additional iron ore coming from Australia, from Brazil, our expectation is that the iron ore market cost curve will continue to flatten and continue to come under pressure.

Arnoud Balhuizen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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