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Anthony Joshua was flat on his back and a long-awaited showdown with Tyson Fury was hanging in the balance.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

That’s up from a previous projection for flat volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Wang and Zahl analysed the problem on the assumption that the pencil was floating in a three-dimensional space, rather than on a flat surface.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The automaker expects deliveries to fall and for sales this year to be flat or decline 3%, after having previously guided for flat to 3% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Then he helped her lie flat along the length of the tree, with her cheek resting on the bark.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

New ventures built with AI from the start offer a vision of how work might look elsewhere in the corporate world one day: a flatter structure with fewer co-workers where everyone is a player-coach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

The comparisons and the praise flatter him, said Messi, who then used the same words to describe Yamal as the best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

You will see, especially among younger people, more entrepreneurs launching smaller businesses or flatter structures as a result of these tools.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

The colors he uses are flatter, more primary than the ones I usually see, but they’re still pretty close.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

On his return to leading England, captain Ben Stokes lost a vital toss in the extreme heat of Trent Bridge, and the Black Caps cashed in on the flattest of flat pitches.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

So instead, I've just defaulted to the flattest toppings vehicle I know — the tortilla.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

With the help of his wife, he printed the fish from a bottom-angled perspective to highlight the cut belly, which is more complex than the traditional technique of printing the flattest side of the fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

“My first thought was to get some good hiking shoes, I guess because I thought I was going to Switzerland. And then I showed up in literally the flattest place I ever lived.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Which she did on the dullest flattest day he could remember, a throw-away day in March when he drove his father’s two-tone Ford over to her house for two bottles of wine.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Caltrans officials are recommending that this section of roadway be flatted out to some extent, Mihranian said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

“I was shocked, but not heartbroken. Heartbreak has already flatted my self-esteem that past year,” she writes.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

A sign outside a Methodist Church near Mayfield captured the powerlessness many here felt in surveying what just a few days ago were busy towns, now flatted and twisted beyond easy identification.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2021

One Kreinik resident said a camp of displaced persons had been flatted and thousands of people had sought refuge in government buildings.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021

So any scale with a flatted third and seventh can be called a Dorian scale.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“We’re talking today about flatting the curve,” Monaco said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

Uneven spray patterns give you an uneven distribution of the flatting agent, which shows up as a very subtle variation in the sheen and doesn’t look good on a large table.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2012

Outwardly innocent, Santana's instrumental solos are long-lined and full of musical guile, bending, flatting and sharping with something of the intricacy of Oriental music.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, his 358th week in the presidency, he ran through the part of just plain Harry without missing a cue or flatting a tone.

From Time Magazine Archive

She turned her back I went around in front of her the rain creeping into the mud flatting her bodice through her dress it smelled horrible.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner