as in to flop
to be unsuccessful
her intended comeback movie tanked at the box office, and once again she was relegated to TV guest spots
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as in cage
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Recent Examples of tank
Tomris Laffly, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
Is the touch tank set up for children to interact with it safely without adult supervision?
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
After this test, the rocket will be de-tanked and turned around for launch.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Every now and then, an empty fuel tank gets released from the balloon with considerable visual drama.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
Is the touch tank set up for children to interact with it safely without adult supervision?
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
The $100,000 fees, along with new prevailing wage rules, may be prohibitive enough to tank the whole program.
—Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
After this test, the rocket will be de-tanked and turned around for launch.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tank
Verb
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This is, mostly, the same group that entered last October with huge expectations, only to flop in four games.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The critique echoes larger skepticism in Silicon Valley, where hardware plays like Humane’s AI Pin and Rabbit’s R1 have already flopped.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Seven ferrets were also found in a cage.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
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Most major celebrities or pop artists will tell you their lives are spent in a glass cage, and yearn for mundanity as much as some pine for fame.—
Jaeden Pinder,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Only the structures that were already gravitationally bound together at that moment, not including the structures that were still collapsing and contracting on their way to becoming gravitationally bound, will actually be able to hold together.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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Confidence notably collapsed during the divisive 2016 presidential campaign, the polling service says, with the highest reading in the past decade being 45% in 2018.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Luigi Avantaggiato Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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Macon is undergoing treatment for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, diagnosed at his 2-year-old checkup this past January.—
Kendall Malinchock,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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But Kempes had failed to score at the World Cup four years earlier, and started this tournament slowly.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Water bottles left behind were filled with black urine – a sign of failing kidneys and dehydration.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Finds Connecting Britain to the World Royal burials like that at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, and Prittlewell, Essex, contained objects from far afield, including Byzantine silver bowls and a jug from the eastern Mediterranean.—
Duncan Sayer,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Oct. 2025
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The jugs cost 600 pounds, and have already been restocked due to demand.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Trump has also ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza.—
SAM MEDNICK,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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After being heavily bombed in WWII, Birmingham is building a better future out of concrete and steel.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Despite obsessing over matchups all season, the Tigers entered this series with only two lefties in their bullpen and other important relievers stuck in the option cycle.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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His last 123 appearances have been out of the bullpen, so a transition back to a starting pitcher may be tough.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Tank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tank. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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