flak
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In his time as Scotland head coach, Steve Clarke has been pelted with flak for his risk-averse management, his innate caution, his reluctance to roll the dice.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Once, when Kyle Okimoto served as a sales initiative head in Merrill Lynch’s global wealth management division, he caught flak from colleagues for bringing a bright-red vinyl rolling suitcase to a sales meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Particularly at the trial level, they’re just getting so much incoming flak, and it makes it a very different job.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Treasuries have taken a lot of flak from Wall Street in recent years, because they stopped behaving like a safe haven.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
When he went to bed alone, he dodged flak over Bologna again in a dream, with Aarfy hanging over his shoulder abominably in the plane with a bloated sordid leer.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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