as in disaster
something that has failed
the movie is such a flop that theaters showing it are the loneliest places in town
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as in to collapse
to be unsuccessful
the attempt to run the ball into the end zone flopped, and our team lost by five points
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
Thankfully, her role as Nancy overshadowed her appearance in the notorious flop The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996).
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
The movie has flopped at the box office, too, with a $37 million domestic opening.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
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But the takeaway from Thursday’s flop is that real innovation hinges not only on creating cool products but on making the unfamiliar feel comfortable and trusted.
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The movie, released by Briarcliff Entertainment in the U.S., flopped with $1.58 million in domestic ticket sales, landing with a thud at No. 10 on Comscore’s box office charts.
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Regional authorities have been heavily criticized for having issued alerts to mobile phones some two hours after the disaster had started.Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The rule could prevent a disaster like the one that happened with Synapse, where thousands of consumers lost access to their funds.Jeff Kauflin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the 1990s and 2000s, stadiums were often standalone venues plopped into urban neighborhoods or surrounded by parking lots.Lee Igel, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Instead of observing from the safety of a movie theater chair, these games plop horror fans right into the frightening thick of things.Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Oct. 2024
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The Democrats’ best hope may be that Trump’s minuscule battleground state leads will collapse on contact with the fearsome Harris turnout machine.W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Nov. 2024
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It was reported that a man was trapped under a tractor after a bridge collapsed on the property, which was in unincorporated Woodstock.Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2024
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His bioluminescent wings seemed to have been caught flapping in this beat between time.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Under the rising sun—around midnight in Manhattan—the destruction was revealed: sloppy gray craters pounded into the earth like graves, scorched nurseries, splintered cribs, clothes flapping like the flags of stillborn nations, and people half dead or fully dead, pallored in dust.Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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The other factor is the failure of the Biden administration to put an end to the Israeli wars that caused the deaths of more than 43,000 Palestinians by continuing supplies of weapons.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The failures of the paternalistic War on Poverty led to more punitive forms of disciplining Black men.Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Students will learn how to fold Victorian puzzle books, fill them with California native leaves and flowers and immerse the piece in natural dye.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Alternatively, fold a larger towel into multiple layers.Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
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This is key, as stripers often stun their prey then swing around and gobble up the dead and dying bunker fluttering to the bottom.Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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His hands fluttered above the keyboard in a way that looks very much like someone playing a theremin, the ethereal instrument that’s played by manipulating the invisible electromagnetic fields around a pair of antennas.Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
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No one exemplifies the boom and bust – the flash and dalliances with the justice system – of the American Dream more than President Trump.Ryan Craig, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Brough said Denver has been here before, when the oil and gas bust in the 1980s left downtown flat on its back.Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Flop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flop. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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