flounder
Example Sentences
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The outlook for younger workers could flounder if the effects of the recent oil shock lead to a pullback in discretionary spending.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
None seem to take note of this wealth of services as some of them flounder in their own bad habits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
I still rewatch Hasan doing what he does best, and I admire him—because in that chair I’d probably flounder and set our people back a decade.
From Slate • Jul. 29, 2025
Mikel Arteta is a manager with a reputation for meticulously exploiting the finest margins - but now Arsenal's season threatens to flounder because he left the most vital commodity of all to chance.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
It had always been Tree-ear who skipped out to the beach at the first word of a flounder run, and he had never returned without a fat fish or two for a rare feast.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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