FLATLINED Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

flatlined

verb

past tense of flatline

as in died

to stop living the patient was fading fast, and doctors expected him to flatline before the night was over

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Recent Examples of flatlined New York flatlined in a 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night, falling into a 2-0 ALDS hole as the series heads north. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Surprisingly, OpenAI’s overall usage within enterprises completely flatlined from about October 2025 to December 2025. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026 The star flatlined twice and underwent a 10-hour surgery before he was put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine for a week. — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026 Enrollment is declining across the board in traditional public schools as the national birthrate continues to fall, charter school enrollment remains robust, private school voucher use increases and the number of immigrant students has flatlined. — Austin Horn july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026 Last year, the stock flatlined despite big data center order growth. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 July 2026 After the disappointment of Die, My Love, another star vehicle from an auteur director that flatlined at theaters, the distributor needs a win. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026 For the past decade, the British economy has flatlined, while its population has become older, sicker, and no more productive. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 The organization's learning velocity has flatlined. — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

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In the town of Chhatak, also in the Sylhet region, the daughter of 30-year-old carpenter Humayun Rashid died unvaccinated in June aged nine months.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Four people died and dozens more were injured after a fire broke out at a Canadian military base in Alberta on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday afternoon.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2026

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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