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as in to stumble
British to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually ignoring the groans and catcalls that his speech was provoking, the backbencher flogged away

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Recent Examples of flog Stop flogging yourself over something that is nobody’s beeswax. Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2025 At the risk of flogging whatever’s left of Secretariat, Clark is the WNBA’s horse whisperer. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 Mar. 2025 As last year ended, the financial media mostly flogged the familiar Goldilocks theme—conditions are not too hot and not too cold. Greg Petro, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 Any amount of time spent flogging the Vantage in the hills of Malibu, either on a weekday lunch break or a Sunday cruise, provided the real peaks of my time with the loaner. Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for flog
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Verb
  • The San Diego native whipped a low cross into the box, which both Adriana Leon and Ascanio narrowly missed.
    Fernando Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Chelsea took the lead on 13 minutes when Neto raced away from deep inside the Flamengo half and opened his body before whipping the ball past Agustin Rossi.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • In the video, the mother dog stays close to her pup, licking him and standing over him protectively.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • While her Nickelodeon and Disney peers have seemingly all had at least one major scandal to their names (ranging from incessant twerking and licking unpurchased donuts to near-fatal overdoses), Palmer’s celebrity was, in part, defined by her lack of verifiable scandals.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • The dinos will stomp back into theaters just in time to set off major fireworks at the Fourth of July holiday, or at least that’s the hope.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • To close out the show, Megan stomped down the catwalk in the Dipped in Gold One-Piece from her swimwear collection, made in collaboration with Walmart.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 30 May 2025
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  • After seven years of searching the West for the perfect place to call home, Northern California author and wellness practitioner Osha Reader stumbled upon her peaceful High Sierra retreat by chance.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
  • After making it around the corner of a nearby Taco Bell, Muller appears to stumble, the footage shows.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Transparency is another issue: Pricing for procedures varies wildly and is often hidden until the bill arrives.
    Paulina Wierzbicka, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • The first iteration of Somni opened in 2018 inside the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, a restaurant hidden inside of José Andrés’s Bazaar, but closed in 2020 as a pandemic casualty.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.
    Thomas Urbain, Fortune, 29 June 2025
  • The president also lashed out at economists who predicted his administration’s tariffs could cause a recession.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • Nicolo Barella would often drop between Stefan de Vrij and right centre-back Matteo Darmian or pull wide outside of Urawa’s defensive block to kickstart Inter’s possession, meaning the Japanese side were comfortable shuffling from side to side with the game in front of them.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • The latest major example of this reliable horror subgenre shuffling (or in this case running) into theaters is 28 Years Later.
    James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • On offense, the Red Sox have predictably struggled without Devers’ bat in the lineup.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • If the mention of Luxembourg conjures visions of banks, European institutions and a vague whiff of royalty, most people struggle to place the tiny country on a map.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 28 June 2025

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“Flog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flog. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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