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Recent Examples of flatline However, forecasts at headline were scaled back — Computershare now expects dividends on this basis to flatline year on year at £90.1 billion dye to the impact of a stronger pound. Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025 Valuations for stocks had risen while earnings flatlined, or worse, were deteriorating. Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025 The Timberwolves went into a do-or-die game and were flatlining before the first quarter was halfway over. Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 29 May 2025 While her peers blew in white-hot, cooled to red-hot, then fizzled, flatlined, and peeled off into God knows where, Nicole Kidman just kept accelerating forward. Danielle Pergament, Allure, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for flatline
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Verb
  • Missing, however, was the museum’s founder Joseph Randall Shapiro, who died just days earlier at the age of 91. 2011: Ferocious winds spawned tornadoes that hit Downers Grove and Mount Prospect, but warning sirens in the communities remained silent.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • If your team is afraid to disagree, if failure is punished, if new ideas die in PowerPoint—your culture needs rewiring.
    Bill Fischer, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • In the footage, the wooden wall can be seen falling forward with a thud, while two vertical cables hang behind, apparently slack.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 June 2025
  • However, that strategy could fall flat if Cuomo keeps his campaign alive.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a summer visitor, as was her late son John F. Kennedy Jr., who perished in a plane crash off the coast with his wife Carolyn Bessette and sister-in-law Lauren in 1999.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 27 June 2025
  • Hundreds of Israeli civilians were injured in Iranian attacks, many homes were destroyed, and a few dozen civilians were killed, including five who perished in an Iranian attack on Beersheba minutes before the cease-fire took effect.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025

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“Flatline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatline. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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