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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

Oil futures were more or less flat, rising 31 cents, or 0.3%, to $90.83 a barrel in New York as traders awaited changes in Iran policy in the wake of the midterm elections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"I wouldn't buy my flat because I didn't want it to go out of circulation, as social housing is for those who come after me," she says.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Morning,” I said back like metal: cold, hard and flat.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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

Seven did not flatter them in the slightest.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

I close my eyes until we level into a flatter forty-five-degree descent.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

“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

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

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

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