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But the company said that those gains were offset by declines in its legacy advertising business, which has floundered in a tough macroeconomic environment.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Already, a pelican colony on the Great Salt Lake has floundered after lowering water levels turned its island into a peninsula, giving access to coyotes, Seed said.

From Washington Times • Sep. 7, 2023

But the private long-term care insurance business has floundered over the past decade.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Inflation has soared and tourism has floundered since the coronavirus pandemic, and long lines for fuel, medicine and food have raised tensions, fanning unrest that led to the largest protests in decades in July 2021.

From Reuters • Apr. 19, 2023

From the time that the ideas of the later Greek philosophers had been forgotten until the present time, man has floundered in a sea of supernaturalism.

From The Necessity of Atheism by Brooks, David Marshall