flipping
Example Sentences
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“He just started flipping out, which was funny.”
From Los Angeles Times
She wedges garbage cans into corners to prevent flipping, and warns her guests not to leave their coats within Stella’s reach.
My mind scrambled for something, anything, and I found myself flipping through every historical event and Glitch mission I could think of like an old-fashioned Rolodex, searching for something that could save us.
From Literature
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The biggest “oil-market nightmare” would be Iran “flipping the Strait of Hormuz switch,” he told MarketWatch — disrupting maritime passage through the narrow chokepoint, which carries 20% of the world’s global crude.
From MarketWatch
The biggest “oil-market nightmare” would be Iran “flipping the Strait of Hormuz switch,” he told MarketWatch — disrupting maritime passage through the narrow chokepoint, which carries 20% of the world’s global crude.
From MarketWatch
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