flak
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Particularly at the trial level, they’re just getting so much incoming flak, and it makes it a very different job.
From Slate • May 12, 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
Terrorized Berlin inhabitants crowded into cellars, subways, underground bunkers, and concrete flak towers.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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