Sami stumbled to the road, flagging down a pickup.
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Flagging
/ˈflæɡɪŋ/
Synonyms for "flagging" (195 found)
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materialmoderateobstructionpavementpiningpokingpokyready to dropregressiverelaxedreluctantretardationretrograderetrogressiverun downrun raggedrun-downsaggingsaunteringseedy
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19 entriesautomatic flaggingboundary flaggingflag anomaliesflag errorsflag outliersflag warningsflagged dataflagged itemsflagging attentionflagging energyflagging interestflagging motivationflagging performancemanual flaggingpriority flaggingrisk flagging
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Collocations
15 entriesflagging anomaliesflagging attentionflagging criteriaflagging dataflagging energyflagging enrollmentflagging errorsflagging for reviewflagging interestflagging mechanismflagging moraleflagging performanceflagging protocolflagging systemflagging threshold
Inflections
5 entriesDerivations
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1 entriesTranslations
1 translations across 1 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- väsyminen noun (tiring or exhausting, such as after exercise)
Sample sentences
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The flagging economy worried investors.
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These cars without doubt were the salvation of the C.I.E. network, as they provided fast, economical services with a degree of comfort which did much to retrieve a flagging passenger traffic.
Source: wiktionary
That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]
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