as in blatant
very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad
that was a flagrant violation of the rules
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Recent Examples of flagrant
These represent flagrant breaches of fiduciary duties and, in Mr. Sullivan’s case, misconduct that breached numerous provisions of his employment agreement.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
When Kelly tries to touch her arm, Brenda swats it away as if her friend had just committed a flagrant foul.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 16 July 2024
Nice to know that rap could still create a culture-wide main event of this kind, full of narratives and lore and cathartic plot points—but the flagrant misogyny on display dampened the mood.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
The flagrant desecration remains a defining feature of Rio’s reputation today.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024
When Kelly tries to touch her arm, Brenda swats it away as if her friend had just committed a flagrant foul.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 16 July 2024
Nice to know that rap could still create a culture-wide main event of this kind, full of narratives and lore and cathartic plot points—but the flagrant misogyny on display dampened the mood.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
The flagrant desecration remains a defining feature of Rio’s reputation today.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Members of a bipartisan House task force investigating the attempt on Trump’s life pushed Ronald Rowe on how the agency’s staffers could have missed such blatant security vulnerabilities leading up to that day in July.Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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Its animation patronizes the third world via DIE dictates, same as with the endless iterations of The Lion King, but this cartoon exoticism is just a new form of the blatant colonialism that Claude Lévi-Strauss lamented in his 1958 memoir Tristes Tropiques.Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps most glaring Sunday, however, was the rash of mistakes that prevented Washington from beating a Cowboys team missing many of its best players.C.J. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
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That’s the total debt owed by the U.S. federal government, by far an all-time high, posing one of the most glaring issues for the next Treasury boss to address.Derek Saul, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Some are quite obvious and on-the-nose, others more arcane.Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Platform Security Is The First Line Of Defense By now, cybersecurity is an obvious and critical priority for every IT organization.Matt Kimball, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Flagrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flagrant. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.
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