flounder
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“The Little Sister” grows even more intriguing once the love affair runs aground, forcing Fatima to flounder in her heartache.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Auditors emphasized the $32.99 stuffed flounder eight city employees ordered at a restaurant 30 miles from Elizabeth City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And recent history shows this is the month where City excel and Arsenal flounder.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Or, with no party organisation behind him, he could flounder.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
He catches flounder and sea bass and bluefish.
From "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan
As Target flounders, some competitors are growing fast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Oftentimes, there’s a chasmic dissonance between the urge to fulfill societal expectations of the quintessential athlete and what can actually be accomplished while one’s health flounders.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
If Pelinka makes the trade and gives Ham the missing piece and the team still flounders … maybe then, you consider firing him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Yet Italians can expect to live about five years longer than Americans, a gap that has widened even as the Italian economy flounders.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
He bought three flounders from the man for a quarter.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Attempts at diplomacy have floundered as fighting escalates on several fronts across Africa's third-largest country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
While Russell has floundered a little, less comfortable with the car, and is still afflicted by bad luck, pace seems to flow from Antonelli so easily.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Complacency was the exact thing that general manager Kelly McCrimmon was looking to eliminate when he fired coach Bruce Cassidy 74 games into the regular season as the Golden Knights floundered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The Bucks floundered without him and the coach paid the price.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Major Major floundered bewilderedly from one embarrassing catastrophe to another.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Last March's 3-0 win for Forest at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium provided the platform for the visitors' survival bid while leaving Spurs floundering until the final day.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, and Erling Haaland have spent the past four weeks feasting on floundering defenses all over America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
He was the emotionally tortured and volatile chef who left behind a rising career in Michelin-starred restaurants to return to Chicago, his hometown, to run his recently deceased brother’s floundering sandwich joint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
However, the event is floundering as one act after another withdraws.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Triumphantly, he watched Janza floundering on weak, wobbly knees.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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