flak
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Peter Bendix, the Marlins’ president of baseball operations, says the team’s catchers “probably took a lot of flak from their peers” because they weren’t calling pitches anymore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Bonus points caught some flak at the end of the Six Nations.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 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
His comments about the New York Fed researchers needing to be “disciplined,” meanwhile, drew flak from respected economists including Claudia Sahm.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
The captain who greeted us was wearing a flak jacket, the heavy vest that was supposed to stop bullets and shrapnel.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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