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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
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
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
Joy Emeh, Health, 19 Sep. 2024
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
Flex cracking is due to excessive circuit board flexure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flexure
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This neurocosmetic innovation, inspired by Nobel Prize-winning research on touch receptors, works by activating sensory pathways in the skin to trigger the release of mood-regulating biomarkers, establishing a continuous feedback loop between skin repair and emotional balance.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Riders can start at the Laguna Campground and loop around the Big Laguna Lake and head back to the campground for about a 32-mile trek.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Natural styling using the LOC method is the best practice to protect and nurture your coils.—
Talia Gutierrez,
Glamour,
30 Sep. 2025
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Venturing into the water to do battle, Krishna grows in size to escape the snake’s constricting coils.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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The patacabra wooden tool, which is used to set folds and seams on leather goods and is personal to each craftsperson, is also given star treatment here.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The idea is that your hard work one night, pays off two-fold when leftovers can be easily turned into a second, different recipe, the next day.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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That means health crises for the newly uninsured could lead them, too, into a spiral of medical debt.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Guardians have won 11 of 12, 16 of 18 and just enough games to send the Tigers into a season-threatening spiral.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The deep purple of these Flabelus shoes with the double buckle adds plenty of charm to any outfit.—
Nneya Richards,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Oct. 2025
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Lively's vintage Chanel red patent leather strass buckle heels completed the look.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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But in a twist, strong economic signals could actually keep the Fed from cutting rates, reining in market bulls.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2025
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The bohemian mood took on a richer, more eclectic twist.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The winding, heavy riff after the opera section, the one that would give the song one of its many second lives when Mike Myers and Dana Carvey headbanged to it in 1992’s Wayne’s World, was Mercury’s own invention.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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This includes restoring original features like the Pan Am logos and the iconic winding staircase.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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The newest convolution is Italian Brainrot anime themes, popularized by creators like Smirzky, which turn the gibberish critters into cast members of a fictional TV show.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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To run a convolution, data converts into laser light on the chip.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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