flailing

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Or maybe Becerra was, indeed, a feckless, flailing and thoroughly awful Cabinet member, deserving of scorn and shame.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

A ball dropping, a defender flailing and a striker as cool as can be, cushioning the ball up and over a stranded goalkeeper.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“They’ve been flailing for several years,” Rob Britton, a professor at Georgetown University, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026

In video clips, robots were seen flailing around, stumbling and falling over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson