floundering
present participle of
flounder
Meaning of floundering in English
- be
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- fall into something
- flounder
- frying pan
- fumble
- fun
- jungle
- leg
- out of the frying pan into the fire idiom
- pickle
- pressed
- prob
- pushed
- rocky
- strand
- thin
Examples of floundering
floundering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The verification methods used here can also be used to show that programs are free from (full) unification, occur-check, and floundering.
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Second, treatment of floundering within negation is improved (it is often done poorly).
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In the individual projects, specific theorems are given in the project assignment to keep the students from floundering.
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We have also ignored floundering, which can occur as well as or instead of the other behaviours.
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An agent is said to be floundering if it stays in the sleep state forever.
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It is the programmer's responsibility to prevent agents from floundering.
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The actors were floundering: they committed themselves to making strange noises, artificial and energetic gestures, but it was all curiously empty and unengaging.
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It is corporeal but not floundering.
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However, because of our commitment to state education, some four-year-olds are taking up places in the local authority nurseries and are leaving those groups floundering.
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We are all floundering around trying to understand, and getting extremely angry.
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They seem to be floundering over what is happening within their party and over the divisions that exist.
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They have been floundering for years on this subject.
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My noble friend generously said that he was floundering when he asked his first question.
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It is no wonder that we are floundering around in the dark.
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Would a private contractor, floundering in the first few months of a four-year contract, have done half as well?
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