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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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But rising import costs from tariffs have thrown her for a loop.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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This creates a self-reinforcing loop: as activity on the chain increases, so does the pool of capital available to users, which in turn improves trading execution, reduces slippage, and boosts overall yield.—
Azeem Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Noun
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The Styling Cream and Strong Hold Gel can be used to shape a bouffant afro, the Curl Gel and Leave-In Conditioner to define coils, and the Curl Mousse for definition and shine.—
Essence,
Essence,
30 June 2025
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Over time, dust, grass and debris build up on the condenser coils, making the unit less efficient.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Features include a large UPF 50+ canopy, leatherette parent handle, large storage basket, and quick one-handed fold.—
Laura Lu,
Parents,
23 May 2025
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With Bashar al-Assad’s eviction and the exodus of Iran and its proxies, Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia have rushed to engage Syria’s new rulers to bring the country back into the Arab fold.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Agency decay manifests across the aspirational, emotional and intellectual realm, directly shaping our behavior, Which perpetuates the spiral that derives us ever deeper into artificial dependency.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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This brush’s flexible bristles are stout and widely spaced to minimize tugging and breaking tight spirals of hair.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Lorde had announced the title of her fourth studio album at the end of April via Instagram, alongside an image of the record’s cover art: a blue x-ray image showing a zipper going down a pelvis, a belt buckle and an IUD.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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As Post Malone strolled the catwalk wearing blue jeans, a big belt buckle and an even bigger grin, questions hovered like pyro smoke over a packed Albertsons Stadium on Tuesday.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
25 June 2025
Noun
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For a fun twist, try switching out the regular crackers for a garlic or vegetable-flavored variety.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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After a season packed with surprising twists, bloodshed, and danger, The Waterfront wraps with a dramatic and intense finale.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
29 June 2025
Noun
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But Johnson’s show, which unfolds chronologically, feels like one winding, thorny, searching, implicitly memoiristic half-century-long process of thought—a record of growing up.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
30 May 2025
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In the following months, soldiers acclimated the horses to Arlington National Cemetery’s winding, hilly roads and the vehicles and people who visit the nation’s premier military burying ground.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Too long to weed through red herrings and convolutions in the mystery that eventually border on irrelevant.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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The best detective stories often aren’t easy to follow, taking convolutions and leaving narrative dead-ends lying around, but many of Honey Don’t!—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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