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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
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Noun
  • In 1935, Qassam and two of his followers ambushed a group of British Mandate policemen, murdering a Jewish sergeant.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The policeman asked where the shell was.
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Another twist is that the roadside tests that cops use to spot drunk drivers don’t work as well for drug impairment.
    Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty, high-flying Zone 2 officer Salia, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, after a leading politician is assassinated in Zone 1.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer, responsible for overseeing its massive infrastructure spending.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to police, 26 officers were injured during the demonstration in London and at least 25 arrests were made.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a news conference on Tuesday evening, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush confirmed a 59-year-old detective, and a 35-year-old senior constable had been fatally shot, and another detective was seriously injured and being treated in hospital.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • When authorities arrived at the residence, the constable's office said in a statement that Bryan had unsuccessfully attempted to flee out of a window.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Flatfoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatfoot. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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