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Recent Examples of flatline Our life expectancy has flatlined. Angela Haupt, Time, 17 Aug. 2025 The rest are flatlining or folding entirely. Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 Price growth has continued to pick up, employment growth in manufacturing has flatlined and other non-manufacturing sectors are feeling the pinch. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025 Despite a global pandemic flatlining the music industry, Hynes contributed to albums by Lorde and Turnstile, crafted film scores for Passing and Master Gardener, and just last year penned some original music for the Broadway play Job. Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for flatline
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Verb
  • Good Fortune follows Reeves as an angel, Gabriel, tasked by his boss, Martha (Sandra Oh), with stopping humans from dying while texting and driving.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The fact that babies and toddlers continue to die from ingesting fentanyl will likely come up in a meeting next month.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • National Weather Service meteorologists consider forecasting waterspouts during the late summer and fall whenever large, cool air masses overspread the waters of the Great Lakes.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Department of Buildings told CBS News New York and News 12 Long Island that a 10-by-10-inch section of the ceiling collapsed due to possible water damage, and pieces of the building fell on customers dining inside.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sadly, none of her citrus survived, and many of her cattle perished.
    Mandi Wright, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Did the whole book really perish in the flames?
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Flatline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatline. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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