flatlines

present tense third-person singular of flatline

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of flatlines Leaders become the bottleneck, the team defaults to the law of least effort, and performance flatlines. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 However, in practice, the drama of this World War II spy saga seldom lives up to the filmmaker’s lofty aesthetic goals, resulting in a tale of torture and human fragility that flatlines long before its central martyr. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 May 2026 Take women out of the equation, and middle-class income essentially flatlines for four decades. Katica Roy, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026 Every time the plot hits the reset button, the tension flatlines. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatlines
Verb
  • Then, just as Hawkins manages to get himself out of a particularly dire bunker, Old Henry collapses and dies on the spot.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 16 July 2026
  • When Ol’ Hank, his best friend in the world, dies mid-round, Lonnie tries to keep playing.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 July 2026
Verb
  • Vessel traffic falls Hoffman cautioned that falling vessel traffic could eventually force producers to reduce output if storage fills up because crude can no longer be exported.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • If payrolls rise and unemployment falls, the labor market is declared strong.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • In The Children, sister and brother Guinevere and Ennis grow up under the shadow of their mother, Edith Sharpe, whose Ninth City children’s book series transfixes the world until Edith perishes in a mysterious fire in Vermont.
    Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
  • Every soldier Harry would have saved on a transport during the war perishes too.
    Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • If someone succumbs to the heat, promptly relocate them to a cool, shaded location.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
  • With three days to go before Krypto succumbs to the slow-acting agent, Supergirl sets out on a cosmic adventure to retrieve the antidote, confronting her emotional trauma along the way.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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“Flatlines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatlines. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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