flat
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In what is believed to be its first time travelling outside France, the tapestry depicting 627 figures and more than 700 animals has been laid flat in a raised glass cabinet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, most other stock and bond indexes are sluggish, flat or down.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Akira Pascall, a paediatric nurse, is another resident of the block and lives with her partner and three-year-old son in a shared ownership flat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.4%, while S&P 500 futures traded flat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
But the snow before the lair had melted in the Dragon's fire, and now the flat surface was a sheet of swimming ice.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Experts call this tendency of machines to excessively agree with and flatter their users AI sycophancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Munich's Allianz Arena is sculpted by thousands of diamond-shaped inflatable cushions, while Sydney's similarly-named Allianz Stadium has a flatter façade smoothed with long bronze fins.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Leavitt, by never failing to placate, flatter and worship her boss, has displayed a singular and decisive pathway, although not a very original one, to political success.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
By the end of the decade, though, he’d shifted to flatter, less brushy scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
“If that free takes a notion to fall, it’ll mash you flatter than a tadpole’s tail.” look on his friendly face, he gave me a hurry- up signal with a wag of his tail.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
His front-knee brace is rock solid, allowing hip and side to propel his action to find the kick and bounce from the flattest pitches.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
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
The road is flat and well maintained, and beyond the town is the flattest land I've ever seen.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
Last week, his 358th week in the presidency, he ran through the part of just plain Harry without missing a cue or flatting a tone.
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
She turned her back I went around in front of her the rain creeping into the mud flatting her bodice through her dress it smelled horrible.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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