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The company projected net sales to be flat to up 1% in the next fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Wang and Zahl analysed the problem on the assumption that the pencil was floating in a three-dimensional space, rather than on a flat surface.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The automaker expects deliveries to fall and for sales this year to be flat or decline 3%, after having previously guided for flat to 3% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The region encompassing Europe, the Middle East and Africa has so far raised only $16 billion, flat compared with last year.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The flat had been empty for months, ever since the professor had gone back to work.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The comparisons and the praise flatter him, said Messi, who then used the same words to describe Yamal as the best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Sander does not romanticize, valorize or flatter them: The even lighting comes from an overcast sky; they are dressed in dark suits and hats, one smokes a cigarette, and each sports a cane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Beijing put on a spectacle designed to flatter Trump ahead of any deal to prove China's door is open to guests.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

You will see, especially among younger people, more entrepreneurs launching smaller businesses or flatter structures as a result of these tools.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

He looked smaller and flatter than I had ever seen him.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

So instead, I've just defaulted to the flattest toppings vehicle I know — the tortilla.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

With the help of his wife, he printed the fish from a bottom-angled perspective to highlight the cut belly, which is more complex than the traditional technique of printing the flattest side of the fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

“My first thought was to get some good hiking shoes, I guess because I thought I was going to Switzerland. And then I showed up in literally the flattest place I ever lived.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

They saw some of the season’s flattest efforts, from Carolina, Florida and Montreal before the holidays and Calgary, Dallas and Edmonton after it.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Which she did on the dullest flattest day he could remember, a throw-away day in March when he drove his father’s two-tone Ford over to her house for two bottles of wine.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Caltrans officials are recommending that this section of roadway be flatted out to some extent, Mihranian said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

A sign outside a Methodist Church near Mayfield captured the powerlessness many here felt in surveying what just a few days ago were busy towns, now flatted and twisted beyond easy identification.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021

One Kreinik resident said a camp of displaced persons had been flatted and thousands of people had sought refuge in government buildings.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021

Halsey’s fourth album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” announces its character from its first sounds: slowly tolling piano arpeggios with a few notes flatted into dissonance.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

So any scale with a flatted third and seventh can be called a Dorian scale.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“We’re talking today about flatting the curve,” Monaco said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

Uneven spray patterns give you an uneven distribution of the flatting agent, which shows up as a very subtle variation in the sheen and doesn’t look good on a large table.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2012

Outwardly innocent, Santana's instrumental solos are long-lined and full of musical guile, bending, flatting and sharping with something of the intricacy of Oriental music.

From Time Magazine Archive

Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the same, though, wherever I happen to be, I don’t think I’m the type that doesn’t even lift a finger to prevent a wedding from flatting.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger