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A highly anticipated sequel falls flat: Romantasy fans have been waiting for more than five years for the latest installment in Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

Barbara Stevens, now 80, bought her two-bedroom council flat in Kentish Town, north London, through Right to Buy for around £35,000.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

One bought an almost identical flat to ours in 1989 for £21,200, after receiving a discount of £18,800.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The U.S. dollar was more or less flat against rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Two huge eucalyptus trees scented the air and cast shade against the flat blue sky.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Its rounded shape is an important clue because weapons tipped with flint or stone generally produce openings with flatter or more angular edges.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

In response to complaints of speeding, he said, Raman’s office helped get four speed tables — a flatter, wider version of speed bumps — installed in the intersection near his business last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Although Celtic conceded four, the scoreline did not flatter Benfica.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Yet even moving to a flatter yield-curve environment can have negative consequences.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Historically, Multan and Rawalpindi – the venue for the third Test – are the two flattest Test pitches in the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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

Ruby gave him the flattest look that had, perhaps, ever been given in all of time.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Over the past fortnight, anyone brave enough to stand in Raonic's firing line has been flatted by a series of 140 mph missiles.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2016

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

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

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