flat out
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“Some just flat out don’t care,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The track's most iconic corner, the flat-out swerves known as Eau Rouge, has been easily flat out on a qualifying lap for the best part of two decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Everything that we’ve got running is going to be flat out for the rest of the year,” Fitterling said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Jacobson says they have computers now working flat out generating brackets for this year’s competition.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
She flat out refused to be my partner in front of the entire class and then demanded to work with her friend.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
His strategy of flat-out denial has also left him open to accusations of lying.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
When Eisenberg first met Moore, he told her flat-out, “I don’t want you to worry about this scene.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Given all that, it is flat-out wrong to say that AI adoption is stagnating, says Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor who studies how companies adopt AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Romero explains how the Supreme Court is essentially treating Callais “as a stand-in for principles that the justices either did not discuss in that case or flat-out claimed to reject.”
From Slate ● May 21, 2026
He felt like he’d run flat-out from Mirror Tech to the McKays’ and like his mind had been stretched to its limit.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
