flat out
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“Some just flat out don’t care,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“This is flat out a lie,” responded Kalshi’s co-founder and operating chief, Luana Lopes Lara, less than a half-hour later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
So we'll go flat out and let's see how it goes.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Jacobson says they have computers now working flat out generating brackets for this year’s competition.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
One day I just flat out asked Ileana to go out on a date.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
When Eisenberg first met Moore, he told her flat-out, “I don’t want you to worry about this scene.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Running too low through the flat-out final corner, Verstappen's inside wheels caught the wet painted line and he lost the rear, sending him nose first into the outside wall.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Or its reply is flat-out wrong on an opinion query like, “What’s your favorite ice cream?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Animal activists noted that CNMI's new guidelines fell short of the flat-out bans on fur seen in other fashion weeks, but nevertheless called it progress.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
We’d always wondered what would happen if we flat-out disobeyed him.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
