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Either the trader bet wrong on oil futures, or he floundered trying to corner the market for Red Pokémon, when everyone knows Yellow is where you have to be."
Boxers floundered.
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That's one reason why the category-killer approach to car-selling, exemplified by AutoNation (which just announced it was closing its used-car superstores), has floundered so badly.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.