flak
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Last year, Diageo drew flak in Canada for closing a bottling facility for Crown Royal in Ontario.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ms. also took flak from some of Steinem’s sister feminists, who contended that it cast women as victims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
As the case dragged on and the flak kept coming, Police Scotland's then chief constable Sir Iain Livingstone said their "diligent, thorough and proportionate" criminal inquiry was looking at potential embezzlement.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
A large chunk of flak had ripped up from the floor through Aarfy’s colossal jumble of maps and had ripped out through the ceiling inches away from their heads.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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