flaking

present participle of flake

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Verb
  • In the segment, Karl reaches out and touches a strip of paint peeling from the basin, which was floating at the top of the pool, lightly holding it for a few seconds before letting go.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Visitors have been flocking to the pool over the weekend and some have taken to social media with photos and videos showing the algae and peeling paint.
    Selina Wang, ABC News, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • Everpure said that their FlashBlades deliver ultra-low latency and leverage KV Cache Accelerators to optimize memory efficient during inference, scaling as needed with various FlashBlade products to expand to support a large AI factory.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Stripe recently revealed data showing that the top 100 AI-native companies are scaling from $1 million to $30 million ARR five times faster than previous software generations.
    Carl Fritjofsson, Fortune, 19 June 2026
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“Flaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flaking. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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