Flounder
verb
Struggle or stagger clumsily as if being unable to see.
John floundered about in the deep snow.
Often appears as...
- flounder around
- flounder about
noun
A type of fish that has a flat body and that is eaten as food.
Fishermen caught some flounder during their trip.
Often appears as...
- catch a flounder
- flounder fillet
verb
To be unsure about what to do or say.
He floundered, not knowing how to answer the question.
Often appears as...
- flounder for words
- flounder for an answer
verb
Struggle or stagger clumsily as if being unable to see.
John floundered about in the deep snow.
Often appears as...
- flounder around
- flounder about
noun
A type of fish that has a flat body and that is eaten as food.
Fishermen caught some flounder during their trip.
Often appears as...
- catch a flounder
- flounder fillet
verb
To be unsure about what to do or say.
He floundered, not knowing how to answer the question.
Often appears as...
- flounder for words
- flounder for an answer
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine physically struggling, which emphasizes the clumsiness in various situations.
After his leg cramped, he floundered to the shore.
Pro Tip 2/3Difficult Situations
Use when it feels like every action or decision is hard to perform or make.
She floundered under the weight of her responsibilities.
Pro Tip 3/3No Clear Direction
Applicable when someone lacks a clear plan or purpose and struggles as a result.
After losing the map, we floundered around the woods.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine physically struggling, which emphasizes the clumsiness in various situations.
After his leg cramped, he floundered to the shore.
Pro Tip 2/3Difficult Situations
Use when it feels like every action or decision is hard to perform or make.
She floundered under the weight of her responsibilities.
Pro Tip 3/3No Clear Direction
Applicable when someone lacks a clear plan or purpose and struggles as a result.
After losing the map, we floundered around the woods.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine physically struggling, which emphasizes the clumsiness in various situations.
After his leg cramped, he floundered to the shore.
Pro Tip 2/3Difficult Situations
Use when it feels like every action or decision is hard to perform or make.
She floundered under the weight of her responsibilities.
Pro Tip 3/3No Clear Direction
Applicable when someone lacks a clear plan or purpose and struggles as a result.
After losing the map, we floundered around the woods.
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Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...
shrimp and maybe ten pounds of other animals that have no value and to make that point even more visual I swam under the shrimp boat and as they were shoveling this stuff back into the sea you know this cascade of death that animals that were only alive an hour ago guitar fish and bat raised and little flounder that now we're floating down to
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Brian Skerry reveals...
And to make that point even more visual, I swam under the shrimp boat and made this picture of the guy shoveling this bycatch into the sea as trash and photographed this cascade of death, you know, animals like guitarfish, bat rays, flounder, pufferfish, that only an hour before,
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How to fix a broken...
unable to marshal the same emotional resources that got her through four years of cancer treatments? Why do so many of us flounder when we're trying to recover from heartbreak? Why do the same coping mechanisms that get us through all kinds of life challenges
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The magic ingredient...
As we went along, we were floundering. The reviews with the director turned from the normal look-and-feel conversation into more and more questions about numbers and percentages. Maybe because unlike normal, we were basing it on something in real life,
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How to get empowered,...
and try to steer towards it. This brings us to the second part of our rocket the steering. We're making AI more powerful, but how can we steer towards a future where AI helps humanity flourish rather than flounder? To help with this,
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Why I choose humanism...
For too long, we have been prisoners of our past. We have allowed despair and pessimism to drain us, drain our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future. We have let this continent flounder.
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My failed mission to...
No wonder I was confused and hyperaware of how different I was from my peers. Cut to 20-something years later, and I found myself to be a highly spiritual person, but I was floundering. I was spiritually homeless.
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Sea Animal Camouflage PIPE...
what about the one that didn't move the flounder is a master of disguise it can change both the color and texture of its skin in an instant
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Unbelievable Bird...
the dolphins drive the fish hole ashore as the fish flounder the dolphins scoop him up
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Best of Animal Teamwork...
fistula schewe as the fish flounder the Dolphins scoop him up
Video examples
Brian Skerry: Ocean Soul...
shrimp and maybe ten pounds of other animals that have no value and to make that point even more visual I swam under the shrimp boat and as they were shoveling this stuff back into the sea you know this cascade of death that animals that were only alive an hour ago guitar fish and bat raised and little flounder that now we're floating down to
Video examples
Brian Skerry reveals...
And to make that point even more visual, I swam under the shrimp boat and made this picture of the guy shoveling this bycatch into the sea as trash and photographed this cascade of death, you know, animals like guitarfish, bat rays, flounder, pufferfish, that only an hour before,
Video examples
How to fix a broken...
unable to marshal the same emotional resources that got her through four years of cancer treatments? Why do so many of us flounder when we're trying to recover from heartbreak? Why do the same coping mechanisms that get us through all kinds of life challenges
Video examples
The magic ingredient...
As we went along, we were floundering. The reviews with the director turned from the normal look-and-feel conversation into more and more questions about numbers and percentages. Maybe because unlike normal, we were basing it on something in real life,
Video examples
How to get empowered,...
and try to steer towards it. This brings us to the second part of our rocket the steering. We're making AI more powerful, but how can we steer towards a future where AI helps humanity flourish rather than flounder? To help with this,
Video examples
Why I choose humanism...
For too long, we have been prisoners of our past. We have allowed despair and pessimism to drain us, drain our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future. We have let this continent flounder.
Video examples
My failed mission to...
No wonder I was confused and hyperaware of how different I was from my peers. Cut to 20-something years later, and I found myself to be a highly spiritual person, but I was floundering. I was spiritually homeless.
Video examples
Sea Animal Camouflage PIPE...
what about the one that didn't move the flounder is a master of disguise it can change both the color and texture of its skin in an instant
Video examples
Unbelievable Bird...
the dolphins drive the fish hole ashore as the fish flounder the dolphins scoop him up
Video examples
Best of Animal Teamwork...
fistula schewe as the fish flounder the Dolphins scoop him up
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Dylan McDermott
American Actor
With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.
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Kirk Cameron
American Actor
As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
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Matt Taibbi
American Author
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
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David Bergen
Canadian Novelist
It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
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Paul Dano
American Actor
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.
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James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!
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H. G. Wells
English Author
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Ron DeSantis
American Politician
Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.
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Kevin Spacey
American Actor
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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George Halas
American Coach
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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Dylan McDermott
American Actor
With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.
Quote examples
Kirk Cameron
American Actor
As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
Quote examples
Matt Taibbi
American Author
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
Quote examples
David Bergen
Canadian Novelist
It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.
Quote examples
Paul Dano
American Actor
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.
Quote examples
James McAvoy
Scottish Actor
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!
Quote examples
H. G. Wells
English Author
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Quote examples
Ron DeSantis
American Politician
Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.
Quote examples
Kevin Spacey
American Actor
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Quote examples
George Halas
American Coach
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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