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Recent Examples of flexure
The colon's transverse section lies horizontally, and the splenic flexure (where the colon curves sharply beneath the lower end of the spleen) is located in the LUQ.
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Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
How much cleavage, compression, flexure, impact, tension, or shear is required to break the plane of a Titebond bond?
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
Processes such as hydrofracture and flexure remain understudied, and ice-sheet models do not yet include realistic treatment of these processes.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
How much cleavage, compression, flexure, impact, tension, or shear is required to break the plane of a Titebond bond?
—Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
Processes such as hydrofracture and flexure remain understudied, and ice-sheet models do not yet include realistic treatment of these processes.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flexure
Noun
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Out near the 10 freeway south of Phoenix, this much longer and faster loop formerly served as an IndyCar test track (including one day when Ayrton Senna reportedly drove there).—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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And for an administration that has premised itself on efficiency, a never-ending loop of funding bait and switch does not exactly make for minimizing waste.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Because of the coils, the bed is bouncier than other options and lacks motion isolation.—
Molly Higgins,
WIRED,
17 Mar. 2025
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The single coil bridge pickup buzzed with a sixty-cycle hum.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Starting with the player to the dealer's left, check, call or fold.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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Now the sun lit up the astonishing length of the Muldrow Glacier thousands of feet below, animating its frozen folds like ripples on a running river.—
Cassidy Randall,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Sticking to a plan keeps you focused on action instead of getting stuck in the mental spiral of the ick.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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In last week's episode, Valentin started a spiral by directing the beautiful actress to a pool bar filled with seniors.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The categories in which it has been registered mean it can be licensed to pretty much anything that can be sold, whether that is a belt buckle, soap-bubble wands or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets.—
Dan Sheldon,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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As Wall Street buckles under the tariff back-and-forth, Trump’s stewardship of the economy is under new scrutiny.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The material seems like a natural match for a Disney live-action treatment with a sweet sci-fi twist that should translate into a charming spring smash at the box office.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The saga took a further twist when the painting’s status was flagged after de Dozsa attempted to sell it at auction.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The theft happened at a time, with the pandemic winding down, when restaurants, as a social idea, felt precious, and possibly endangered.—
Zach Helfand,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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The city’s terra-cotta rooftops and winding alleyways feel lifted from the pages of the play.—
Becca Blond,
AFAR Media,
10 Feb. 2025
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Tax experts are well-versed in navigating the tax code’s convolutions and can offer personalized guidance.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
28 Jan. 2025
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The stakes are higher than ever, and most refreshingly of all, the convolution levels are very manageable right now.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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