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In each case, those companies that recognized the changes and adjusted to them flourished, while those that didn't floundered and eventually went under.
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.
Boxers floundered.
Instead, Fisher has floundered.
The country floundered in uncertainty under the regency of Marie de Médicis, mother of the young Louis XIII, until Cardinal Richelieu took charge as prime minister in 1624.