Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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"Once we have ironed out any issues, we hope to commercialise the technology and employ it on a CubeSat constellation, aiming to contribute to early fire detection within an hour."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
The England number one seems to have ironed out those glitches in concentration that so often resulted in conceding a goal.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
A past version of Rutledge may have ironed them out for the sake of uniformity.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
These days, it often feels like algorithms have ironed out large parts of society into being exactly the same — and it’s tasteful or whatever, but it’s also so boring.
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
The latter would have ironed him at once, but the irons were forward in the armroom, so he temporarily bound him hand and foot with neckties replevined from his fellow officers' staterooms.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan
