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I never really found the movies particularly scary, as they’re anchored by a shaky premise, mediocre scripts, subpar acting and flat characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Pauline tried to help her bleeding friend get home to the flat across the road she shared with her mum, dad and brother Alan.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

This stretch of Texas, flat, straight and filled with trucks, is the perfect testing spot for dozens of driverless big rigs, some without a human driver and others with one riding along just in case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Revenue was roughly flat at $12.41 billion, topping analyst estimates of $11.36 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Then he helped her lie flat along the length of the tree, with her cheek resting on the bark.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

By the end, her stomach appears flatter - if a little red.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Whatever the assignment was supposed to accomplish, it did not appease the man it was designed to flatter.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 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

The window, he saw when he reached it, opened onto a dim, tundralike landscape that was flatter than the mountains in the Cittàgazze world, and colder, with an overcast sky.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

When I’m dry, I go to Kennington’s and buy the flattest shoes I can find and a slim black crepe dress.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

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