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Wickremesinghe is also the finance minister tasked with stabilizing the economy, which is foundering under the weight of heavy debts, lost tourism revenue and other impacts from the pandemic and surging costs for commodities.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022

While Chicago seems to have found its way with Mack and a defense that leads the league with 10 sacks, Arizona is foundering.

From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2018

I loved “Eleanor & Park” so much that I then moved on to “Landline,” also by Rowell, about a successful, burned-out TV writer named Georgie, whose marriage to a stay-at-home dad is foundering.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016

While it is aesthetically intact, it is foundering financially.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2013

Of Bazaine he says, "In clinging to Metz he acted like one who, when the ship is foundering, should lay hold of the anchor."

From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres