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was foundering
verb
Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
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The project was foundering.
My relationship was foundering.
The family was foundering.
In the meantime, his marriage was foundering.
At the time, Bachmann's campaign was foundering.
Aside from soccer frustrations, her marriage was foundering.
But by the time Ms. Thorpe became director in June 2008, the museum was foundering.
As Halperin was flourishing inside the new establishment, his father's career was foundering.
Officials with the city's Department of Homeless Services disputed the idea that the program was foundering.
The liberal-socialist provisional government that had run Russia since the tsar's abdication was foundering.
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The article describes "A student from New Jersey [who was] foundering in her physics class her junior year but [was] too embarrassed to tell anyone".
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