flat
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The set includes maverick detective Carl Morck's New Town flat.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In July, consumer spending rose a meager 0.2%, and it was flat after taking inflation into account.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
While the German plan fell flat, some countries, including France and Poland, already tax artificially-sweetened beverages.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In nature, there are compounds that are able to hook up with flat proteins like RAS by first latching onto a “helper” protein inside of human cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
And this was an especially good flat tire, because there were seven kids in the car-pool station wagon, and four of them started to cry—not Sam, of course.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Munich's Allianz Arena is sculpted by thousands of diamond-shaped inflatable cushions, while Sydney's similarly named Allianz Stadium has a flatter facade smoothed with long bronze fins.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Munich's Allianz Arena is sculpted by thousands of diamond-shaped inflatable cushions, while Sydney's similarly-named Allianz Stadium has a flatter façade smoothed with long bronze fins.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Leavitt, by never failing to placate, flatter and worship her boss, has displayed a singular and decisive pathway, although not a very original one, to political success.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Elected officials and some others see a chance to create jobs and lure data centers and manufacturers to a rural patch whose economy has been flatter than the surrounding cornfields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“I’m not going to attack you, if that’s what you’re in a knit about. Don’t flatter yourself.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
There was the chase of 378 against India, and the win on the flattest pitch Rawalpindi had ever seen.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
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
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
Fly Away made a big move in her last start to take the lead but flatted out late to finish third.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2013
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
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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