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Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

These aren’t even movies that you’d bring to the water cooler, lest you want a conversation with a coworker to fall flat after 10 seconds.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

But while the couple signed a string of commercial deals with US platforms like Netflix and Spotify, reports said their attempts to make a living in the United States had fallen flat.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

"At first it was the blasting and the tremors from underground, and we would feel our flat shake," 45-year-old Voneen Trompeter told AFP in Roodepoort, northwest of central Johannesburg.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

The moonlight off the snow in the cold air was so bright and flat white you could have read a book, and the dogs worked wonderfully in the cold.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

But when Jurado sarcastically introduced the next speaker — “Your favorite, Lineage, will now present!” — the joke fell flatter than a solar panel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

“There is no need to flatter me, young man,” she said, even though the Grand Elder was much older than she.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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