flat
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Treasury yields rose, while gold prices were broadly flat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
And the heat inside his flat became difficult to manage.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Airbnb’s stock has remained relatively flat since its IPO in 2020, in part because of persistent headwinds from home-rental restrictions in major urban destinations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The DXY dollar index was flat at 99.834, with investors cautious ahead of Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"A flat walk, due west. That should be easy enough, though of course with the boy it will take us longer."
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Already established by the 1940s, Avery’s work grows simpler, more expansive, flatter and with larger color blocks, but his images remain tethered to the real world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
New ventures built with AI from the start offer a vision of how work might look elsewhere in the corporate world one day: a flatter structure with fewer co-workers where everyone is a player-coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
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
In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Sri Lanka, who are coached by former England coach Chris Silverwood, crumbled amid the carnage on the flattest of pitches.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
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
“Sounds epic,” I said in my flattest monotone.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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
Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She turned her back I went around in front of her the rain creeping into the mud flatting her bodice through her dress it smelled horrible.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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