flatness
Americannoun
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Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Carefully is a generous term here—the process is more like arranging a raw chicken on a baking pan for maximum flatness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
To these students, who perceive A.I.’s banal flatness as a hallmark of good style, my new essays are not acceptable.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Up on the balcony of one of the windmills, looking out at the impressive flatness of Holland, I get talking to Ishan from Canada.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
He was equipped with an excellent diaphragm, and the presence of overtones in the sound unit robbed him of much of that metallic flatness that marks the usual robot voice.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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