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doglegs

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plural of dogleg

as in slopes

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That was evident once again on stage 14, when Pierna — who along with Romeo was one of the revelations of the race — dropped back from the break and paced Mas up the steep slopes of Sierra de la Pandera.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Experts are still working out what role climate change played in the disaster, but rising temperatures are destabilizing Nepal’s glaciers and frozen mountain slopes.

— Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of slopes

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Both tracks have plenty of blind corners, are lined with walls, and feature high-speed turns.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Curb cuts — those graded concrete ramps at the edge of sidewalk corners that allow anyone and anything with wheels to glide gently onto the street below — aren’t really the sort of thing most people think about.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of corners

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Cows amble in the distance along the inclines of meadows; their grazing helps control invasive plants.

— Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026
Bert McCarty, a Clemson University professor of turfgrass science and management, said golfers like how top courses are so different — from incorporating the ocean in places near beaches to relying on inclines in the mountains.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of inclines

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Johnson frequently uses his saxophone to control a sampler or drum machine, triggering changes in loops and effects, but the technology is ultimately subordinate to physical expression.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2026
Often rapping over drumless loops, Elsesser took inspiration from Yasiin Bey and the late Ka, the Brownsville MC and producer who spent his days as an FDNY captain and nights as a pillar of hip-hop’s avant-garde.

— Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of loops

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They’ve been assembled for a brain-breaker of a misfired melodrama, at first darkly amusing, before plunging headlong into soap opera-style twists and a general sense of heavy depression that no one can shake.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
The beloved original delivered plenty of twists, thrills, and chills, courtesy of director Griffin Dunne and Alice Hoffman, who wrote the novels the 1998 and 2026 films are based on.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of twists

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The tight cropping in the monochrome nudes isolates slopes, folds, shadowed recesses and curved planes that hover between landscape and abstraction.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, from Uçhisar's higher terraces and viewpoints, Cappadocia unfurls below in great geological folds, with Göreme and its surrounding valleys in the distance.

— Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026

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