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And at just under two hours, the movie could seriously benefit from cutting some flab.—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026 Sir Jim Ratcliffe Obviously Adrian Dunbar, repurposing all of his best bits from Line of Duty in the service of cutting flab and waste.—Jack Lang, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026 If the aim is to sharpen them into leaner and more effective tools of governance, the public could benefit from the remaking of a system that has long been weighed down with bureaucratic flab.—Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024 Like buying a CrossFit membership to keep off the belly flab or seeing that therapist who keeps excavating childhood traumas, this is a lifelong relationship, a thing of commitment and sweat and never-ending vigilance.—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for flab