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flinders

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Recent Examples of flinders After all, the normal patterns of life were blown to flinders. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flinders
smithereens
Plural Noun
  • Harry retasked the fighter to target a nearby barn instead, pretending to blow it to smithereens.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • When Rs propose some spending cuts, Ds demagogue it to smithereens.
    Theodoric Meyer, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023

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“Flinders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flinders. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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