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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
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Yet, this strategy stumbles when confronted with the complexity of human systems, where relationships and feedback loops defy neat separation and where interventions often yield unpredictable consequences.—
Dr. Alex Gold,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Several heads of industry have toyed with creating an imaginary staff, embracing the self-mirroring feedback loop of their output as a plus.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
17 June 2025
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The brand says this mattress is made with seven layers of these natural materials as well as over 2,400 steel coils.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
20 June 2025
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Instead of being interconnected, each coil stays in its own lane (pocket, really) and will compress uninhibited by the other coils around it.—
Julia Forbes,
Wired News,
17 June 2025
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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
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Charlie Taylor, a sociologist and founder of Charlie’s Toolbox, knows that spiral well.—
Alejandra Rojas,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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But a few decades ago, the village fell into a spiral of alcohol addiction and gambling.—
Ahmer Khan,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2025
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The classic bottle, also in Post Malone’s new color, buckles into the top of the lunch box for easy carrying.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
16 June 2025
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Versions with crisscross straps, gold buckles, or braided details add an artsy, feminine touch to the outfit.—
René Chávez Esparza,
Glamour,
11 June 2025
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Garnish with a twist of lemon peel (express lemon oil) French Martini Ingredients: 3oz The Reid Vodka 3oz Pineapple juice 3oz Raspberry Liquor or raspberry syrup Instructions: Add ingredients to shaker with ice.—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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This mocktail is pure indulgence with a playful twist.—
Essence,
Essence,
17 June 2025
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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
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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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These convolutions come across as brand management to the point of wish fulfillment; did a Fleischer Studios executive give the note that under no circumstances must the musical imply that Betty Boop is anything else than universally adored?—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Flexure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flexure. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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