Thesaurus / floundering
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The search giant is keenly interested in growing its cloud computing division alongside its business collaboration tools, yet its many attempts at developing chat services—Allo, Duo, Hangouts—have floundered.
5 SOFTWARE ACQUISITIONS SALESFORCE’S SLACK DEAL COULD SPURRHHACKETTFORTUNEDECEMBER 4, 2020FORTUNEIn fact, the games industry has thrived at a time when other entertainment mediums have floundered.
‘WE WANT OUR BRANDS TO BE WHERE PEOPLE ARE’: AS GAMING BECOMES A CULTURE TOUCHSTONE, ADVERTISERS TOGGLE INSEB JOSEPHDECEMBER 1, 2020DIGIDAYArcadia, once a mighty business that dominated the British high street with brands such as Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, and Dorothy Perkins, has been similarly floundering.
TOPSHOP IS A CASUALTY OF COVID’S DARWINIAN CULLING OF RETAILERSMARC BAINNOVEMBER 30, 2020QUARTZIn Coach Zac Taylor’s second season, the team is floundering at 2-7-1 and now is without its franchise quarterback for the foreseeable future.
JOE BURROW SUFFERS SERIOUS KNEE INJURY, ENDING BENGALS QB’S IMPRESSIVE ROOKIE SEASONSAM FORTIERNOVEMBER 23, 2020WASHINGTON POSTMoreover, the show never fully decides whether Rory is floundering professionally because the economy is bad, because she is a bad journalist, or because she isn’t emotionally strong enough to handle the hustle.
EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOXSo had he stopped there it would have been wonderfully well; but he had to go floundering innocently on.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDHe loosed the blankets from his shoulders, and floundering down the slope was lost in the vapor.
THE GOLD TRAILHAROLD BINDLOSSDawn found him at last, floundering hopelessly in snow-screened woods, going on toward he knew not where.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPERAfter two or three more steps, the bottom fell away and, floundering savagely, he sank to his shoulders.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSSMy fears of burglars or stray cattle were dispelled by the voices of lost and floundering men calling to each other.
THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIAADA CAMBRIDGEWORDS RELATED TO FLOUNDERING
- aimless
- designless
- desultory
- drifting
- empty
- feckless
- floundering
- fustian
- goalless
- good-for-nothing
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- indiscriminate
- irregular
- meaningless
- motiveless
- needless
- nonsensical
- pointless
- purportless
- random
- senseless
- uncalled for
- undirected
- unhelpful
- unnecessary
- unplanned
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- vacuous
- wanton
- worthless
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