flat
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Pricing net of mix in the quarter was roughly flat, while volume growth drove most of the increase in revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sales are now anticipated to be up in the low-single-digit percent range, compared with a previous view of flat to up 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The backlash led the new corporate owners of the building that includes her flat to reach a deal allowing her to return at a low rent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The social backlash led to the company that owns Abascal's flat, Urbagestión, negotiating her return to the flat on a low rent.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The flat stoicism of her earlier utterances disappears and Mrs. Dannenberg grounds her forehead into the palm of her hand.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Yet even moving to a flatter yield-curve environment can have negative consequences.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Experts call this tendency of machines to excessively agree with and flatter their users AI sycophancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Companies across the corporate spectrum are dispensing with managers who oversee just a few employees in favor of larger teams with flatter management structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Greedier batters, flatter surfaces and poorer performances will provide tougher days, but here Root brought a welcome calmness on his return as skipper.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
They patronize, they flatter, maybe they wish to comfort themselves.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Brook and Root were helped by one of the flattest pitches on record in Multan.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
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
The road is flat and well maintained, and beyond the town is the flattest land I've ever seen.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Caltrans officials are recommending that this section of roadway be flatted out to some extent, Mihranian said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
“I was shocked, but not heartbroken. Heartbreak has already flatted my self-esteem that past year,” she writes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
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
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
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“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
Last week, his 358th week in the presidency, he ran through the part of just plain Harry without missing a cue or flatting a tone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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