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flailing

noun as in flogging

noun as in threshing

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That’s why we need to share anything that captures them flailing around as much as possible.

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And then he doesn’t get the response he wants and runs out flailing, like a toad that finally got turned back into a man?

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Menendez said he had no plan at the time, there was just “a lot of flailing in what was happening.”

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Rather than a functioning republic, we are an ailing, flailing, perhaps even failing empire.

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It has allowed fans to relax and trust in the recruitment process, especially the improvement since the flailing days of Rooney.

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