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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

Ruth Crabb has lived in her flat in Havering since 1997.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

This marked the biggest fall in sales since June 2024, and missed a consensus of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal, who expected sales to remain flat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

She moved out of my nan's and into her new council flat.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

One moment he was standing, and the next moment he was flat on his back.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

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

Among the newly popular offerings: a slouchier, lower-rise version of its flagship jean sold as 501 ’90s, and its wedgie bootcut fit, which was designed to flatter the backside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The river moved rapidly back into flatter country, swamps, lakes, and the first thing that happened was the bottom turned to mud.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

On his return to leading England, captain Ben Stokes lost a vital toss in the extreme heat of Trent Bridge, and the Black Caps cashed in on the flattest of flat pitches.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

Australia is by far the driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile, climatically most unpredictable, and biologically most impoverished continent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

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