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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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Here are two signs that your relationship is stuck in a conflict loop.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Found in the Bukit Gasing Forest Park between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, the 2.4-mile-long loop is a local favorite and takes around one to 1.5 hours to complete.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Don't cover the condenser coil outside to make your house look prettier.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The upright charging area has two coils inside, making sure that the device can be charged in any orientation.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Sprays aren't generally effective because the mites are protected and hidden in leaf folds or galls.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
9 Aug. 2025
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It's got a great fold and can sit standing up, too.—
Nena Farrell,
Wired News,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Ganatra and Weiss make everything feel a bit mechanical rather than an escalating spiral of craziness, and too many scenes play like montage fodder without actually taking the plot anywhere.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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Right frolics—forward, backward, sideways, in a spiral or a zigzag, going nowhere.—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
31 July 2025
Noun
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The shoes — a hybrid of patent and matte black textures — featured a rounded toe, flared heel and a slim strap across the instep, secured with a small silver buckle.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Miuccia Prada's Miu Miu offers boots with a narrow, yet slouchy silhouette and a vintage buckle, while Japanese brand Onitsuka Tiger extends the shaft a little more and lets the boot material fold down the leg.—
María Munsuri,
Glamour,
27 July 2025
Noun
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Classic American specialties with Native American twists at Bluff Dwellings Resort. 2625 S. U.S. 191, Bluff, Utah.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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In an ironic twist, Powell, acquired last month from the Los Angeles Clippers, recently paid Highsmith to acquire Highsmith’s No. 24 that Powell had worn at his previous NBA stops in Toronto, Portland and Los Angeles.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Some successful measures providing non-police options for emergency response, like the CAHOOTS crisis assistance program in Eugene, Oregon, have had to be discontinued due to a winding down of federal support.—
Sandy Hudson,
refinery29.com,
9 July 2025
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Close up of electrical engineer inspecting copper windings in an electrical engineering factory.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
9 July 2025
Noun
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But a convolution of religious beliefs not based on biblical norms but used to fit a person’s own biased agenda is certainly foremost of the causes.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Aug. 2025
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Following the decades-long convolutions of an intense and volatile friendship between two women, Ruth and Maria, Lonely Crowds poses similar questions about the limits of personal relationships.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
22 July 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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