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
While corvids and parrots are unquestionably brainy, they flounder with some cognitive tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Or, with no party organisation behind him, he could flounder.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
He didn’t even like seafood until puberty — “back then it was only flounder or sole for me” — but as an adult, he’s circled back to the foods of his childhood.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
A run of flounder meant that a school of the tasty fish had come into shore far closer than usual; the waves even tossed fish right up on the beach.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
As Target flounders, some competitors are growing fast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
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
Evergrande's offshore bondholders are expected to sharpen their focus on offshore assets as the developer's debt restructuring plan flounders with the founder now being investigated over suspected "illegal crimes".
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2023
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
Old platter-foot Doxology was daintily nibbling hay from the manger with lips like two flounders.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
While Ferrari, the pre-race favourites, floundered and made, in the words of their team boss Frederic Vasseur "too many mistakes", Norris and McLaren were almost perfect.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
While Starmer floundered in the polls, Burnham agitated for change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Other U.S.-based sodium-ion startups have floundered of late.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Attempts to mend US-South Africa relations have floundered.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
It doesn’t help that you two were hired together and you’ve clearly thrived while she seems to be floundering.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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
After more than a decade of failed attempts to raise money, blown deadlines and rebrands, it had been floundering.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Seated at his desk, floundering over a math test—fractions, which he had not studied the way he should have—he glanced up at Mentor, the schoolmaster.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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