flat out
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“Some just flat out don’t care,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
As American refineries run flat out, U.S. inventories are still dropping because of voracious demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
So we'll go flat out and let's see how it goes.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Jacobson says they have computers now working flat out generating brackets for this year’s competition.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
Now he was running flat out, and ahead he could hear galloping.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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
Running too low through the flat-out final corner, Verstappen's inside wheels caught the wet painted line and he lost the rear, sending him nose first into the outside wall.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
Or its reply is flat-out wrong on an opinion query like, “What’s your favorite ice cream?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Every franc we’d saved up had gone to Eeben Axelroot, because Father had to bribe him flat-out to fly the two of us back from Léopoldville.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
