The first thing the interviewee must do is distil the few most important issues.
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Some cocoa producing countries distil alcoholic spirits using the liquefied pulp.
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It really does distil that sense of mid-Eighties disillusionment and despair.
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Instead they distil the Palestinian experience of exile into something real.
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I said yes, I'd love to distil my thoughts about the situation into a poem.
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On the other hand, it seems reasonable to try and distil a mainstream line.
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One way to extract goodness from this explosion of print is to cut, reduce and distil.
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They distil their own wine, make herbal liqueur, keep bees for honey and grow lavender.
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His dictionary of 1755 lemmatises distil and instill, downhil and uphill.
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More examples
Condense: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
Distill: extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
Distill: give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. Distillation is a unit operation, or a physical separation process, and not a chemical reaction.