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If sole were the sole type of fish whose name had multiple meanings, that would be one thing to carp about, but three is enough to make anyone flounder.

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Unfortunately, the children had learned the words according to the way they sounded, rather than what they actually meant, so that “All hail to our founder” became “A pail full of flounder” and so on.

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Some think the floundering and flawed heroine, who's fixated with her weight and relationship status, is not the best role model.

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Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country's competition authority said Thursday.

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Doncic looks like an MVP in purple and gold, while the Mavericks flounder in the cellar of the Western Conference.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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