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The Niners’ free safety was caught flat-footed in the second level and couldn’t recover in time to break up the play.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
Shapiro is smart, well-prepared and doesn’t get caught flat-footed in interviews.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
Trump has surprisingly struggled to come up with effective lines of attack against Harris and appears to have been caught flat-footed by Biden’s decision to step down and hand the baton to his No. 2.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
After being left flat-footed in this space, the search giant quickly developed a competitor to ChatGPT called Gemini.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 25 July 2024
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
Shapiro is smart, well-prepared and doesn’t get caught flat-footed in interviews.
—Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
Trump has surprisingly struggled to come up with effective lines of attack against Harris and appears to have been caught flat-footed by Biden’s decision to step down and hand the baton to his No. 2.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
After being left flat-footed in this space, the search giant quickly developed a competitor to ChatGPT called Gemini.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 25 July 2024
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“Flat-footed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flat-footed. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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