flat out
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“This is flat out a lie,” responded Kalshi’s co-founder and operating chief, Luana Lopes Lara, less than a half-hour later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
He added that he could not give MPs a publication date, saying: "We are working flat out to agree the plan with everyone across government."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
One woman who came trying to sell us her handmade baskets looked in our door and spied our scissors and asked right flat out if she could have them!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
As it turns out, I’m hardly the only person to have felt hoodwinked, bamboozled, and/or flat-out deceived by my smartphone’s forecasts in 2026.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
Animal activists noted that CNMI's new guidelines fell short of the flat-out bans on fur seen in other fashion weeks, but nevertheless called it progress.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
In any case, the rate of hiring this year is a big improvement over last fall, when the economy was flat-out losing jobs.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
I stared at the flyer and tried to think of what to say, but nothing that wasn’t a flat-out lie or the entire angry and uncensored truth came to mind.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
