flat
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In another group, the tablet lay flat on a desk set at a lower height, which encouraged participants to lean forward and hunch over.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
With perfect weather year-round and a mostly flat topography, why wasn’t everyone in L.A. riding bikes?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
On a flat pitch, Marsh and Rickelton added 148 for the first wicket which gave Brook, England's limited-overs captain, the licence to go berserk.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Novo, which had been expected to release its second-quarter results on Wednesday, said it now anticipates adjusted sales growth for the year will be flat or as much as 6% lower, at constant exchange rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
He was mesmerized by what the man did next, which was to apply the colored goo onto the flat surface of the canvas.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
By the end of the decade, though, he’d shifted to flatter, less brushy scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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
Sander does not romanticize, valorize or flatter them: The even lighting comes from an overcast sky; they are dressed in dark suits and hats, one smokes a cigarette, and each sports a cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Beijing put on a spectacle designed to flatter Trump ahead of any deal to prove China's door is open to guests.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“Don’t try to flatter me,” Eiddileg cried, trying to look furious, yet beaming at the same time.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Sri Lanka, who are coached by former England coach Chris Silverwood, crumbled amid the carnage on the flattest of pitches.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
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
Ruby gave him the flattest look that had, perhaps, ever been given in all of time.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
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
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