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Recent Examples of flatfoot Bring your folding chairs for a twangy celebration of old-time and bluegrass music, complete with youth competitions, flatfoot dancing, and toe-tapping performances set against the Blue Ridge Mountains. Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 31 May 2025 Osteotomy: Cutting and shifting bones to change the shape of a flexible flatfoot. Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024 There was clogging, stomping and flatfoot dancing; the Dutch and English square-dancing with the Africans and the Irish. Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021 Overture on harmonica while flatfoot dancing and twirling a rope. Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatfoot
Noun
  • Some of the policemen were busy convincing men with rifles who had positioned themselves in between the houses along West Sullivan Street, facing the school, to hold their fire.
    Sally Ventura June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Baruchel will play Jacob Merrick, a small-town policeman.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Medics took both victims to Bellevue Hospital Center in stable condition, cops said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
  • Since then, articles are popping up, pointing out that people have a right to ask questions before just assuming that guy with the badge is really a cop.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Towels Pop all of your family's bath and hand towels into the wash every Friday, advises Tanu Grewal, who is the chief cleaning officer at Pinalen Cleaner, Cloralen Bleach, and Ensueno Laundry in Houston, Texas.
    Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
  • Writer/director Williams spent four years visiting Australian prisons and interviewing officers and inmates, many of whom are featured.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The constable’s office was notified of the inappropriate request June 10 when the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force came into contact with Slusher’s request, officials said in a news release.
    Kate Linderman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2025
  • The constable threw her convulsing body over the back of a horse and carted her to county lines.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025

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“Flatfoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatfoot. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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