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Re "floundering" vs. "foundering": my nerd alarm just started clanging. You were actually right the first time: to "flounder" is to struggle helplessly or clumsily. To "founder", usually said of ships, is to break up and sink. "The vessel was driven against the rocks and it foundered."

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