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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

take the flak en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal, intransitive) To be strongly criticised.
    • The manager's going to take the flak for taking our star player off the pitch.
    • “When we released GPT-3,” Sam Altman told me over lunch at a restaurant off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, “we took a lot of flak from the community for putting it behind the API”[…] 2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
took the flak Tense=Past lexicographic
taking the flak Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
taken the flak Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
takes the flak Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic