smooth out

That’s an effort to smooth out another wrinkle caused by the disconnect between state and federal law, Schmidt said.

"We're in negotiations and they are going very well. We're at the last few things we've got to smooth out and then the fight will get announced. So yeah, big things are happening very soon."

He found, however, that when you set up panels of 15 to 20 people to sample different scents, the average from one group of that size to another really smooths out the variation between individuals.

Once we got onto the 91 Freeway, the traffic smoothed out, and so did my flow of thoughts.

“The idea is not to experience as many individual highs and lows but to smooth out your reactions and be more even-keeled,” Reeck said.